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Acting
Sidney Fox's unraveling—watch her eyes go from defiant to dead.
Direction
Erskine milks that midnight deadline for every sweaty second.
Production
Electric chair as setpiece—pre-code Hollywood went there.
Director
Chester Erskine
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