Trial

Tense! Timely! Thrilling!

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.

Drama

Glenn Ford

(David Blake)

Dorothy McGuire

(Abbe Nyle)

Arthur Kennedy

(Barney Castle)

John Hodiak

(District Attorney John J. Armstrong)

Katy Jurado

(Consuela Chavez)

Rafael Campos

(Angel Chavez)

Juano Hernández

(Judge Theodore Motley)

Robert Middleton

(A.A. "Fats" Sanders)

John Hoyt

(Ralph Castillo)

Paul Guilfoyle

(Cap Grant)

Elisha Cook Jr.

(Finn)

Ann Lee

(Gail Wiltse)

Whit Bissell

(Sam Wiltse)

Richard Gaines

(Dr. Johannes Schacter)

Barry Kelley

(Jim Brackett)

Dorothy Green

(Mrs. Mary Ackerman (uncredited))

Frank Cady

(Canford (uncredited))

Percy Helton

(Youval (uncredited))