They Won't Forget (1937)
A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with political ambitions, sees the crime as his ticket to the Senate if he can find the right victim to finger for the crime. He sets out to convict Robert Hale, a transplanted northerner who was Mary's teacher at the business school where she was killed. Despite the fact that all the evidence against Hale is circumstantial, Griffin works with a ruthless reporter to create a media frenzy of prejudice and hate against the teacher.
- Released
- 1937-07-14
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Mervyn LeRoy, Aben Kandel, Robert Rossen
- TMDB rating
- 5.9/10 from 34 votes
Cast
- Claude Rains as District Attorney Andrew J. Griffin
- Gloria Dickson as Sybil Hale
- Edward Norris as Professor Robert Perry Hale
- Otto Kruger as Michael Gleason
- Allyn Joslyn as Bill Brock
- Lana Turner as Mary Clay
- Linda Perry as Imogene Mayfield
- Elisha Cook Jr. as Joe Turner
- Cy Kendall as Detective Laneart
- Clinton Rosemond as Tump Redwine
- E. Alyn Warren as Carlisle P. Buxton
- Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs. Hale (as Elizabeth Risdon)