Broadcast: 2nd May 1946

Starring: Joseph Cotten

Added: May 04 2007

New York’s famous criminal lawyer Lou Hendricks has come to hate and loathe his girlfriend Carmen Brown and during a heated argument he kills her with a large brass candlestick. He is suddenly overwhelmed with the thought that he had committed a murder. Then he thinks to himself there isn’t a lawyer in New York with more thorough experience in the handling of criminal cases than him. He knew all the angles, the pitfalls of the defence in such a case as this, the psychology of the prosecution and in less than he minute he had put himself on trial on a plea of self-defence, reviewed the evidence and found himself guilty...