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They Won't Forget is a american film of genre Drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy released in USA on 9 october 1937 with Claude Rains
They Won't Forget (1937)
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Add to a movie listThey Won't Forget is a 1937 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy. It was based on a novel by Ward Greene called Death in The Deep South, which was in turn a fictionalized account of a real life case: the trial and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank after the murder of Mary Phagan in 1913. Lana Turner made her film debut as the murder victim.
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A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Memorial Day. A district attorney with political ambitions, Andrew Griffin, sees the crime as way to the Senate if he can find the right scapegoat to be tried for the crime. He seeks out Robert Hale, Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Even though all evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Hale happens to be from New York (Leo Frank was a Southerner from Texas, but he was Jewish and had been raised in New York), and Griffin works with reporter William Brock to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hatred against the teacher. The issue moves from innocence or guilt to the continuing bigotry and suspicion between South and North, especially given the significance of the day of the murder.Actors
Claude Rains
(District Attorney Andrew J. Griffin)
Gloria Dickson
(Sybil Hale)
Edward Norris
(Professor Robert Perry Hale)
Lana Turner
(Mary Clay)
Otto Kruger
(Michael Gleason)
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