Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
Direction
Lang's first American film — his German Expressionism meets American savagery.
Acting
Tracy's transformation from everyman to something colder than death.
Editing
The lynching sequence — still shocking, still technically flawless.
Director
Fritz Lang
Sylvia Sidney
Katherine Grant
Spencer Tracy
Joe Wilson
Walter Abel
District Attorney
Bruce Cabot
Kirby Dawson
Edward Ellis
Sheriff
Walter Brennan
Bugs Meyers
Frank Albertson
Charlie Wilson
George Walcott
Tom Wilson
Arthur Stone
Durkin
Morgan Wallace
Fred Garrett
George Chandler
Milton Jackson
Edwin Maxwell
Vickery
Howard Hickman
Governor
Jonathan Hale
Defense Attorney
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