Ha! Excellent. I was a Criminal Trial Lawyer for a decade. I used this exact tactic in court. Won the case...twice (long story) with it. But in the end it landed me in jail for Contempt of Court for messing with the Judge's and Prosecutor's minds. Very funny, actually. I would definitely do it again, but I got massive hatred from half of the Defense Bar. Just letting you know that this Courtroom Drama was veeeeeery accurate. Thanks for loading this up for us.
@@IMeMineWho lol. In that case the Id problem was actually reversed: police arrested the right person but with a warrant for the guy’s brother. I put the brother at the defense table (the one identified in the warrant). Case was dismissed. But after dismissal the prosecution and police Immediately re-arrested using the still wrong warrant. I did the same thing at the second trial. Court and prosecution found out and were irate! Court found me in Contempt for pulling a fast one. (But Constitutionally speaking I was exactly right. Before the State puts Any of us in jail they had better have All of their T’s crossed and I’d dotted). That’s the story. Except that while in jail for contempt I got 8 new clients….
@@basiclawprof ...the problem these days is that the gov/prosecutors don't need to have their ducks in row, have the correct facts or even have a case - just an elite backer ($$$) and a leftist judge to convict any of us. I couldn't watch this - 6 minutes in it was far to frustrating to see the corruption glorified.
Thanks Pizza Flix. It’s always interesting to see great actors in their beginning roles. Who’d a thought Steve McQueen and William Shatner acting together.
Shatner had already starred in "The Strange World of Suzie Wong" on Broadway....would perform the 1st interracial kiss on US TV with France Nuyen on Ed Sullivan that year.
What a gem!! 1957 black and white. No cussing. No special effects. No gratuitous sex and violence. Yet filled with raw human emotion and great acting and drama. Great cast.
Top call...thank you. I remember watching TV back in the early 60's and there wasn't so much as a 'bother, or a damn'; or any of the condescending, gratuitous crapola as you mentioned. Thanks again for reminding me of the brilliant talent that existed then!
THANK YOU KINDLY AGAIN BECAUSE UNIVERSAL TRUTHS ARE CONSTANT THAT WHAT IS TRUE AND RIGHT IS TRUE AND RIGHT FOR ALL IN THE EYES OF WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE DEDICATED TO KENTUCKY TEACHER I AM FIRM IN MY BELIEF THAT A TEACHER LIVES ON AND ON THROUGH HIS STUDENTS, GOOD TEACHING IS FOREVER AND THE TEACHER IS IMMORTAL, JACK OR/AND ECHO OR AND JESSE STUART, MY UNCLE BY MARRIAGE A FINE SUPPOSITION IF YOU LIVED AMONG JANKEES IN NEW ENGLAND WHICH YOU DO NOT, THE BEATINEST BOY. RULE OF LAW NOT MEN PERSONALITY, USA VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME JACK 🐬 "
I would suggest watching his guest appearances on The Defenders (EG Marshal and Robert Reed as Ken Preston)... And watch For the People, Shatner's lawyer series the year before Star Trek
Is Westinghouse truthful that there products are more superior than other appliances or are they guilty of defaming the worthiness of there competitors appliances. A jury of housewives will decide . 👩👱♀️👩🏼🦰👩🏽🦳👩🏾🦰🧑🏻
So glad I found this too. It originally aired 2/25/57, 3 month before I was born on 5/26. There's so much great stuff from mid-century that's "new" to me, I don't need anything new at all.
@@jesusnameaboveallnames7369 Happy upcoming birthday to you. I find it infuriating and amusing YT is FULL of fake AI videos claiming '57 Chevys, our age, are now NEW 2025 cars! Lots of them. Total fake, AI clickbait. Much of it derived from actual GM concept photos from the mid-50s that thankfully were rejected. I've seen them in Collectible Automobile magazine.
I'll bet a thousand dollars that there's at least ONE of those refrigerators and washing machines still working. The TV's not so much, they were using vacuum tubes instead of transistors. The washing machines... probably if they used standard v-belts on the drive motor, but the refrigerator, most definitely.
Worked on one of the refrigerators in early 2000s Had been a wedding present for the old lady on the farm Her son and then grandson just changed the drive belt and oiled the drive / fan motor I was there to repair the door handle and hinges😂😂😂😂 Found a spring in van and with a couple washers all done Will probably out last me
I don't even know why I watched this. Maybe the names of Steve McQueen or Captain Kirk attracted my attention. But I certainly didn't imagine it'd be so good. And tomorrow morning I'll get a Westinghouse washing machine.
@@joline2730 👍👍 Still waiting though for "Flying cars", "Robots that can, cook, clean and answer the door" Oh and taking a short vacation to that luxurious space station floating above us. Well, at least we now have "crystal clear UHD 4K flat screens" ....
@Bob-Horse my reply is to you because U chose a code name. Wm Shatner is an equestrian in his spare time. I wonder what your connect to horses might be. Today is 2024/09/14 AD...
Very, very good. A gem. McQueen in a totally different role, and shatner showing he is so much more than just Startrek. Thank you for bringing this to us, and showing the dubious nature of 'the law' to which we are all subjected.
This was great. It had so many big names in it and an ending that was more complex than I expected. Seeing Ed Asner as an extra was a fun little Easter Egg too. According to IMDb it was the first year of his 64+ year career in acting. Great choice, PizzaFlix.
Nicely done! Thank you! Interesting and well acted. Thanks for the upload and thank you for leaving the ads in, it was refreshing to see how the ads were in the 50s.🌸
Very enjoyable. I like stories with a twist in the tail. Even the advertisements were enjoyable. Great to see Martin Balsam and Steve McQueen in action again.
Star Trek (TOS) - Season 3 Episode 23 "All Our Yesterdays!" aired March 14, 1969 - Ian Wolf played Mr. Atoz the librarian and his two clones, Mariette Hartley also guest starred as Zarabeth a prisoner transported back in time and confined there in a ice-age climate world, Kermit Murdock also guest starred as the Prosecutor from the same time as the Librarian but sent back in time to a different time period where Kirk accidentally was transported and was stuck in a Cromwellian time period and the Salem Witch type population were intent on executing him for being involved in witchcraft, a profound episode, maybe even predictive of real-world events.
@@seanc.mcnally2118 I posted as much 7 hours in detail and with a reference as to where Star Trek TOS can be watched for free, but it looks like the You Tube gestapo did not approve of the where to watch suggestion; I edited my reply and posted the edited post below!
@@seanc.mcnally2118 I posted as much 7 hours in detail and with a reference as to where Star Trek TOS can be watched for free, but it looks like the RUclips algorithm Gestapo did not approve of the where to watch suggestion; I edited my reply and posted the edited re-posted.
Summation by Captain James T. Kirk. Steven McQueen, later Captain Hilts made a great escape here. The judge was the librarian in an episode of Star Trek.
As an ex AD man all I can state is, that those Westinghouse ads were terrific 👍. Also ' If you wanna be sure...slogan was USP' '( Unique Selling Proposition'). Indeed. This was an iconic lawsuit movie. Thank you for sharing. 👏
These early television shows are timeless, as relevant today as when they were first made. An excellant performance by a young Steve who I knew in the 70's/80's. Steve had a troubled childhood. I think his excellant perfomance here wasn't acting, he just had to relive the terrible things that happened to him when he was a boy. 🙂
What a superb group of actors in this episode. That was the youngest i have seen Florence Stanely. Remember her? Ahe played Mrs. Fish on Barmey Miller and also in the spinoff called Fish. She played on other series' later on, too, but i didn't watch those. Many great actors in there not listed in the ooening credits. Idk of the ending credits will list them as I'm only half way through the episode !
This why I liked Flatliners and Young Guns. Relatively unknown young up and comers. Like a lot of these type of films too and them we see them later as full stars
This movie illustrates the ethic that it's better to let a guilty man go free than to convict an innocent man. And yes, as William Shatner said in the end that no one proved that the Steve McQueen character was guilty. The script was very good and making the Ralph Bellamy character believe in his heart that the defendant was guilty was at the heart of the script's genius.
A brilliantly acted drama, with two young stars early in their career. Ralph Bellamy, is fantastic too in his role. But he does look extremely aged, for a man only in his early 50's.
So this is the inspiration for Reginald Rose's series "The Defenders"? Great cast and script, very sharp direction by Robert Mulligan. Those were the days.
Ralph Bellamy was a Great Actor, so underrated and indeed forgotton now but in the 1930's to the early 60's he was one of everybody's favorite screen and TV artists.
What you call a foundational flaw is not so. In this case the state did not prove its case: lazy assumptions were made about the identification. The state has to prove, not assume. Some guilty will go free but this is to protect the overwhelming number of us innocents.
@@pmlm1571 You are just blatantly WRONG here. The foundational flaw is that our “justice system” seems to be set up more for the pursuit of a winning prosecution and the perpetuation of the prosecutor’s career than for the pursuit of pure justice.
I was a juror on a case much like this, though not a murder, that was the case the day before, attempted murder... anyhow: A federal detective and the county's sheriff deputies were completely convinced of the guilt. The ADA picked up the case that week after it had languished almost a year. The case was completely circumstantial, and the only real evidence was a package the federal detective had delivered to the house. The wife didn't speak much English and accepted the package. The package says on a table for 6 hours untouched...even after the father came home. At 11pm they came in and arrested all the adults...took the children... It was lazy policing, racial profiling and bad prosecution. I thought I would end up in a hung jury as it was Friday afternoon....but one other man and I were able to point out the case was completely based on These People Do this Stuff. When we were leaving at 6pm after returning a verdict that totally surprised the prosecution...they actually had the gall to come up to me and ask WHY? I just said you didn't prove it and I agreed with the pro bono defense attorney that it was sloppy policing. I made sure I drove home 5 miles under the speed limit and didn't tempt any yellow lights. Odd thing, I was never summoned to jury duty again in that county while lived there for 12 more years.
I watched this 50 years ago and it profoundly changed my ideas of how the law works. I don't believe that any show before this had, so clearly, exemplified the fact that out defenders are human - with the same biases and emotions. The pitting of Son against Father was awesomely portrayed. Shatner played his part so well that I could actually feel his frustration, anger and - yes - disdain - of his Father for presuming guilt. Thank you for the flashback to an era that produced quality TV. PS. MOST manufacturers claim that their fridges and freezers defrost 'automatically' - they're all liars. PPS. I've a very early recording of one of William Shatners first appearances on stage - to great acclaim BTW. The recording is very poor but I don't believe it's available anywhere online.
Sorry to hear about your unsatisfactory experiences with refrigerator/freezers. I've had two - a Kenmore I used for 20 years and a Hotpoint I'm still using after 17 - that were described as "frost free," and they both lived up to that description every day of their use. In fact, the Kenmore was so "frost free" that ice cubes that weren't used fast enough would shrink down to nothing! No, I don't sell appliances. I just think that products that actually do what they claim deserve a little shout-out.
Pizza Pizza!!!! Pizza Pizza!!! great Ed Asner with no lines in the jury, I just wanted to hear him call out Ted! Mary! etc. Bill Shatner did a great job without changing character and Ralph Belamy was tops, Steve and Martin did awesome and the mom was great
The acting and story line were superb! Every bit as good as "12 Angry Men" but a flick I never heard about. A MUST WATCH for courtroom drama fans! Only on RUclips...
1957 I was in my last year of 8th grade at Haydock Jr high school in Oxnard California. In September of 1957 I would start my Freshman year at Oxnard High School!! May 16 I turned 14 yrs old..
A television play from the days before you had to pay for cable or other gouges. The television of my boyhood. Thanks to the recorder and thanks to the video poster
THANK YOU KINDLY CANADIAN FRIENDS OF WILLIAM SHATNER, A STARK TRED DEADHEAD FAN HERE, LOVED THIS FILM BECAUSE OF RALPH BELLAMY IN A CARY GRANT FILM THAT SOMEONE SAID HAD MORE SCRIPT WORDS THAN MOST IN THE ERA OF FILMMAKING JACK OF MANY TRADES SAID SO? OINK HE'S #clicking again with Toototabon, that hen, that chicken, PIZZAFLIX THANKS! 🐬🐬🐬
Possible spoiler alert: 1 hr in and for a half hour now I’ve been thinking Dr. Wallach killed his wife, for her money(?) And I guess the “trick” is a look-alike(?) Edit: So, I was right about the “trick” which was no trick on my part because it seems so obvious. @1:46:18 Is that the smile of the cat that ate the canary creeping across Dr. Wallach’s face (thinking he’s gotten away with killing his wife) or resignation or . . . ? The actor did a great job of not showing us an obvious answer. Credit the producers with an interesting call for that one. ( Yes, I realize the argument against him smiling is the fact that now the police may take a hard look at him for the crime, but it’s Hollywood, so . . . (?)
now we can sit back and appreciate this...real TV courtroom drama... nothing like the trash that's churned out today... 👍🏿 love the Westinghouse commercials kindly note
Geeze, great movie, but alas I've still the narrow band set. IF, only a Go Fund Me was organized for me I could get the Broad Band set and enjoy this fine movie in detail. Sigh.
I just kept seeing that guy in ... oh can't remember the name, the one about the Stock Exchange, seeing him explaining what Commodities are. And I kept seeing Shatner in the Beauty Contest film with Sandra Bullock, looking real stupid at the end when all hell broke loose ... 😅😅😅😅
Not McQueens breakout role. The Magnificent Seven was the role that put Steve McQueen on the map. Without that, he might have been another Shatner, all TV for 20 years, but without the Big Screen comeback as "Captain Kirk". The Great Escape, The Cincinnati Kid, Nevada Smith, The Sand Pebbles, Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Getaway, Papillon... all of those roles sprung from his role as Vin in The Magnificent Seven.
At least two of the actors were in a Twighlight episodes, and one of them was Shatner who was in at least two separate episodes from the other actor. Also, the man playing the prosecuting attorney in this movie was the jury foreman in 12 Angry Men. And it looks like the judge in this movie played a juror in 12 Angry Men.
Reminiscent of how excellent TV plays were in the 1950’s. Betty Furness pitching for Westinghouse. Enjoyed seeing so many familiar faces. Still miss Steve McQueen. 👍❤️
Ha! Excellent.
I was a Criminal Trial Lawyer for a decade. I used this exact tactic in court. Won the case...twice (long story) with it. But in the end it landed me in jail for Contempt of Court for messing with the Judge's and Prosecutor's minds. Very funny, actually. I would definitely do it again, but I got massive hatred from half of the Defense Bar.
Just letting you know that this Courtroom Drama was veeeeeery accurate. Thanks for loading this up for us.
Interesting, thanks for sharing that!
Inquiring minds want to know that story...😉
@@IMeMineWho lol. In that case the Id problem was actually reversed: police arrested the right person but with a warrant for the guy’s brother. I put the brother at the defense table (the one identified in the warrant). Case was dismissed.
But after dismissal the prosecution and police Immediately re-arrested using the still wrong warrant. I did the same thing at the second trial. Court and prosecution found out and were irate!
Court found me in Contempt for pulling a fast one. (But Constitutionally speaking I was exactly right. Before the State puts Any of us in jail they had better have All of their T’s crossed and I’d dotted).
That’s the story. Except that while in jail for contempt I got 8 new clients….
@@basiclawprof ...the problem these days is that the gov/prosecutors don't need to have their ducks in row, have the correct facts or even have a case - just an elite backer ($$$) and a leftist judge to convict any of us.
I couldn't watch this - 6 minutes in it was far to frustrating to see the corruption glorified.
@@basiclawprof should have thrown away the key, you blighter ;)
Thanks Pizza Flix. It’s always interesting to see great actors in their beginning roles. Who’d a thought Steve McQueen and William Shatner acting together.
A new 6 Degrees of Kevin B...!
Shatner had already starred in "The Strange World of Suzie Wong" on Broadway....would perform the 1st interracial kiss on US TV with France Nuyen on Ed Sullivan that year.
Ed Asner on the jury.
What a gem!! 1957 black and white. No cussing. No special effects. No gratuitous sex and violence. Yet filled with raw human emotion and great acting and drama. Great cast.
😂😂😂😂😂
Even the commercials were well written back then. E.g. "the scene of the grime" in the washer/dryer commercial.
and no political correctness....
I wish my little refrigerator had auto defrost :)
Top call...thank you.
I remember watching TV back in the early 60's and there wasn't so much as a 'bother, or a damn'; or any of the condescending, gratuitous crapola as you mentioned.
Thanks again for reminding me of the brilliant talent that existed then!
The only ads I wouldn't skip through! Great stuff.
That Westinghouse self-defrosting refrigerator and stackable washer and dryer set seem terrific! I want them. 🤩
Fantastic Find!! Thank you PF for an outstanding gem. 😊
THANK YOU KINDLY AGAIN BECAUSE UNIVERSAL TRUTHS ARE CONSTANT THAT WHAT IS TRUE AND RIGHT IS TRUE AND RIGHT FOR ALL IN THE EYES OF WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE DEDICATED TO KENTUCKY TEACHER I AM FIRM IN MY BELIEF THAT A TEACHER LIVES ON AND ON THROUGH HIS STUDENTS, GOOD TEACHING IS FOREVER AND THE TEACHER IS IMMORTAL, JACK OR/AND ECHO OR AND JESSE STUART, MY UNCLE BY MARRIAGE A FINE SUPPOSITION IF YOU LIVED AMONG JANKEES IN NEW ENGLAND WHICH YOU DO NOT, THE BEATINEST BOY. RULE OF LAW NOT MEN PERSONALITY, USA VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME JACK 🐬 "
Yeah, good stuff. I 'm old enuff (75) to remember 😉
@@mrsteveinsandiegoBetty Furness, was the pitch person on that commercial. No gimmick commercials in those days. 😀
Awesome court drama.
Nice to see young Shatner.
All the actors have excelled.
Worth seeing ❤
I would suggest watching his guest appearances on The Defenders (EG Marshal and Robert Reed as Ken Preston)...
And watch For the People, Shatner's lawyer series the year before Star Trek
@@STho205 Yes, I was astonished a year ago to discover those excellent Shatner dramas. I had thought I knew all the best 50s TV.
Wow, William Shatner, Ralph Bellamy, Martin Balsam, Steve McQueen and Ed Asner. Quiet the cast. Never seen this one before. 🥤🍿🍿
Wow, the commercials are just as intriguing as the movie.
Is Westinghouse truthful that there products are more superior than other appliances or are they guilty of defaming the worthiness of there competitors appliances.
A jury of housewives will decide .
👩👱♀️👩🏼🦰👩🏽🦳👩🏾🦰🧑🏻
notice back then they didn't use young ladies in the commercials like today. It was the product not the beauty.
Un niño bañándose en pleno escenario,, 😂,,, inconcebible hoy
@@jorgedominguez6824 people weren't as sick and deranged as they are today.
Wow! Excellent film, performances, direction and all done live
Shatner 26 years old in 1957, McQueen is 27
So glad I found this too. It originally aired 2/25/57, 3 month before I was born on 5/26. There's so much great stuff from mid-century that's "new" to me, I don't need anything new at all.
09.19.2024
@@bobpierce115
I was born exactly 5 months after you!!
🥳Happy birthday🥳
to us!!🤣
@@jesusnameaboveallnames7369 Happy upcoming birthday to you. I find it infuriating and amusing YT is FULL of fake AI videos claiming '57 Chevys, our age, are now NEW 2025 cars! Lots of them. Total fake, AI clickbait. Much of it derived from actual GM concept photos from the mid-50s that thankfully were rejected. I've seen them in Collectible Automobile magazine.
McQueen sure looked like a bad guy in court, wouldn't even look at the jury.
I'll bet a thousand dollars that there's at least ONE of those refrigerators and washing machines still working. The TV's not so much, they were using vacuum tubes instead of transistors. The washing machines... probably if they used standard v-belts on the drive motor, but the refrigerator, most definitely.
I remember dad replacing motors, belts, relays, etc on washing machines " back in the day". Now, spare parts just aren't made.
We had on in the early 60s. Can't remember what happened to it.
Worked on one of the refrigerators in early 2000s
Had been a wedding present for the old lady on the farm
Her son and then grandson just changed the drive belt and oiled the drive / fan motor
I was there to repair the door handle and hinges😂😂😂😂
Found a spring in van and with a couple washers all done
Will probably out last me
Great flick with excellent young actors turning into excellent career actors. Steve is always intense. Tku for post.
and Ralph Bellamy was terrific too.........and so was Martin Balsam before Candid Camera...
Excellent! What an amazing cast and a great script. Thank you!
William Shatner still going strong.
I don't even know why I watched this. Maybe the names of Steve McQueen or Captain Kirk attracted my attention. But I certainly didn't imagine it'd be so good.
And tomorrow morning I'll get a Westinghouse washing machine.
Damn straight. Westinghouse 1957 model
Mine is still working marvelously .
Tough to beat Raymond Burr as PERRY MASON.
Sure it will last for the next 50 years.
37:03 Don't ya just love the commercial for Westinghouse "BROADBAND TELEVISION" . Oh boy, how far we've come.
FD: Yes, so glad they were left in - it's a great piece of retro history 👍👍💯💯
@@joline2730 👍👍 Still waiting though for "Flying cars", "Robots that can, cook, clean and answer the door" Oh and taking a short vacation to that luxurious space station floating above us. Well, at least we now have "crystal clear UHD 4K flat screens" ....
@@fd5927 Yep, wonderful isn't it 😄😄😄
@@joline2730 Absolutely .... 😃
Except this was on 1957 Westinghouse Broadband TV.
She Hulk and Velma is on modern HDTV.
This was written by Reginald Rose, the same guy who wrote “12 Angry Men.” Interesting that Martin Balsam appears in both productions.
!2 is another tight court drama.
Thank you for everything you do... bringing the classics, and sharing film details with us!
You are the best! ❤
Brilliant movie, thank you for posting.
@Bob-Horse my reply is to you because U chose a code name. Wm Shatner is an equestrian in his spare time. I wonder what your connect to horses might be. Today is 2024/09/14 AD...
@@jeanherndon4536 Thanks for clarifying “AD”.
Very, very good. A gem. McQueen in a totally different role, and shatner showing he is so much more than just Startrek. Thank you for bringing this to us, and showing the dubious nature of 'the law' to which we are all subjected.
William Shatner has reinvented himself in many roles....
PS. I'm Canadian.
So heartwarming to see our national treasure in one of his earliest roles. Bill Shatner is gem.
Thanks again PF ❤
Ed Asner is a juror! Very good! 😊
This was great. It had so many big names in it and an ending that was more complex than I expected. Seeing Ed Asner as an extra was a fun little Easter Egg too. According to IMDb it was the first year of his 64+ year career in acting. Great choice, PizzaFlix.
Even back then as an extra, you can see that Ed had presence!
enjoyed this movie and seeing the commercials!
Steve died in 1980 and William is still acting. All that living never to be.
What a story! Thanks for sharing.
Nicely done! Thank you! Interesting and well acted. Thanks for the upload and thank you for leaving the ads in, it was refreshing to see how the ads were in the 50s.🌸
May they All 💕 be R.I.P 🕊
Thank You ✨ PizzaFlix for Sharing this Gem 💎
William Shatner is still with us!
Very enjoyable. I like stories with a twist in the tail. Even the advertisements were enjoyable. Great to see Martin Balsam and Steve McQueen in action again.
Very interesting case. Great acting, especially Mr. Mcqueen. Like the mural behind the judge's chair. Thanks for posting.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed the movie too.
Fantastic script, direction and, so important, fantastic acting.
Ralph Bellamy was a great actor....Steve McQueen pure raw talent.....Shatner and Balsam reliable and excellent. Television's golden age of drama.
Great movie first time I've seen this awesome.!!!!
The Judge . . vanishes through a portal . . . [][] [] Thank you PizzaFlix ! What a great show . . so many great actors doing their best !
He was the Librarian in one of the last original Trek episodes
@@seanc.mcnally2118 I posted a more detailed account of this fact 7 hours ago but the You Tube Police did not approve of my posting!
Star Trek (TOS) - Season 3 Episode 23 "All Our Yesterdays!" aired March 14, 1969 - Ian Wolf played Mr. Atoz the librarian and his two clones, Mariette Hartley also guest starred as Zarabeth a prisoner transported back in time and confined there in a ice-age climate world, Kermit Murdock also guest starred as the Prosecutor from the same time as the Librarian but sent back in time to a different time period where Kirk accidentally was transported and was stuck in a Cromwellian time period and the Salem Witch type population were intent on executing him for being involved in witchcraft, a profound episode, maybe even predictive of real-world events.
@@seanc.mcnally2118 I posted as much 7 hours in detail and with a reference as to where Star Trek TOS can be watched for free, but it looks like the You Tube gestapo did not approve of the where to watch suggestion; I edited my reply and posted the edited post below!
@@seanc.mcnally2118 I posted as much 7 hours in detail and with a reference as to where Star Trek TOS can be watched for free, but it looks like the RUclips algorithm Gestapo did not approve of the where to watch suggestion; I edited my reply and posted the edited re-posted.
Excellent movie... 1957 and still good Thank you for posting. Cam't stand actual movies.
What a treasure, thanks for sharing.
Summation by Captain James T. Kirk. Steven McQueen, later Captain Hilts made a great escape here. The judge was the librarian in an episode of Star Trek.
Yes I remember! I think the bailiff officer also made a Star Trek appearance.
Great movie! Surprises like this one are going to bring you closer to 1ml subscribers. Good job.
Make America Great Again....what a great drama to be on TV....we were GREAT then.
As an ex AD man all I can state is, that those Westinghouse ads were terrific 👍.
Also ' If you wanna be sure...slogan was USP' '( Unique Selling Proposition'). Indeed.
This was an iconic lawsuit movie. Thank you for sharing. 👏
My late uncle worked for Westinghouse. 😊
Interesting/entertaining.McQueen & Shatner did an ( OK ) performance. Bellamy performed brilliantly-!!!🤗. Enjoyed the ( TV ) commercials.
Excellent story and acting.
These early television shows are timeless, as relevant today as when they were first made. An excellant performance by a young Steve who I knew in the 70's/80's. Steve had a troubled childhood. I think his excellant perfomance here wasn't acting, he just had to relive the terrible things that happened to him when he was a boy. 🙂
Great suspense; excellent job PF!
What a superb group of actors in this episode. That was the youngest i have seen Florence Stanely. Remember her? Ahe played Mrs. Fish on Barmey Miller and also in the spinoff called Fish. She played on other series' later on, too, but i didn't watch those. Many great actors in there not listed in the ooening credits. Idk of the ending credits will list them as I'm only half way through the episode !
This why I liked Flatliners and Young Guns. Relatively unknown young up and comers. Like a lot of these type of films too and them we see them later as full stars
The judge was the Librarian in Star Trek's episode the City on the Edge of Forever, ten years later, if I remember the title correctly
Great Movie!
I love that the "bad guy's" first response was to find his mom and hug her.
Much appreciated, thanks, Man!
This movie illustrates the ethic that it's better to let a guilty man go free than to convict an innocent man. And yes, as William Shatner said in the end that no one proved that the Steve McQueen character was guilty. The script was very good and making the Ralph Bellamy character believe in his heart that the defendant was guilty was at the heart of the script's genius.
A brilliantly acted drama, with two young stars early in their career. Ralph Bellamy, is fantastic too in his role. But he does look extremely aged, for a man only in his early 50's.
Thank you for noticing more than just the actors.
Chad McQueen, Steve beloved son,died today.
Fine acting by men with long careers.
Much better than familiar, overrated & oscar-winning movies.
So this is the inspiration for Reginald Rose's series "The Defenders"? Great cast and script, very sharp direction by Robert Mulligan. Those were the days.
Yes. Yes and a clip was used in Son of the Defender" episode 18 of season 3, that aired on April 3, 2007.
1:19:20 woah. What happened to doctor/patient confidentiality?
Brilliant, many thanks.
Ralph Bellamy was a Great Actor, so underrated and indeed forgotton now but in the 1930's to the early 60's
he was one of everybody's
favorite screen and TV
artists.
Steve/shantner together in one movie. A rare classic gem
@1:27:30-1:29:30 Wow, what a brutally honest and scathing indictment of the foundational flaw underpinning our “justice system”.
indeed. this film was so intense. 1957 holy wow.
What you call a foundational flaw is not so. In this case the state did not prove its case: lazy assumptions were made about the identification. The state has to prove, not assume. Some guilty will go free but this is to protect the overwhelming number of us innocents.
@@pmlm1571 You are just blatantly WRONG here.
The foundational flaw is that our “justice system” seems to be set up more for the pursuit of a winning prosecution and the perpetuation of the prosecutor’s career than for the pursuit of pure justice.
@@xmillion1704 sounds like you enjoy crime. Maybe you do crime?
I was a juror on a case much like this, though not a murder, that was the case the day before, attempted murder... anyhow:
A federal detective and the county's sheriff deputies were completely convinced of the guilt. The ADA picked up the case that week after it had languished almost a year. The case was completely circumstantial, and the only real evidence was a package the federal detective had delivered to the house. The wife didn't speak much English and accepted the package.
The package says on a table for 6 hours untouched...even after the father came home. At 11pm they came in and arrested all the adults...took the children...
It was lazy policing, racial profiling and bad prosecution. I thought I would end up in a hung jury as it was Friday afternoon....but one other man and I were able to point out the case was completely based on These People Do this Stuff.
When we were leaving at 6pm after returning a verdict that totally surprised the prosecution...they actually had the gall to come up to me and ask WHY?
I just said you didn't prove it and I agreed with the pro bono defense attorney that it was sloppy policing. I made sure I drove home 5 miles under the speed limit and didn't tempt any yellow lights.
Odd thing, I was never summoned to jury duty again in that county while lived there for 12 more years.
Congratulations, top quality movie, the argument is extraordinary.
I watched this 50 years ago and it profoundly changed my ideas of how the law works. I don't believe that any show before this had, so clearly, exemplified the fact that out defenders are human - with the same biases and emotions. The pitting of Son against Father was awesomely portrayed. Shatner played his part so well that I could actually feel his frustration, anger and - yes - disdain - of his Father for presuming guilt. Thank you for the flashback to an era that produced quality TV.
PS. MOST manufacturers claim that their fridges and freezers defrost 'automatically' - they're all liars.
PPS. I've a very early recording of one of William Shatners first appearances on stage - to great acclaim BTW. The recording is very poor but I don't believe it's available anywhere online.
Sorry to hear about your unsatisfactory experiences with refrigerator/freezers. I've had two - a Kenmore I used for 20 years and a Hotpoint I'm still using after 17 - that were described as "frost free," and they both lived up to that description every day of their use. In fact, the Kenmore was so "frost free" that ice cubes that weren't used fast enough would shrink down to nothing! No, I don't sell appliances. I just think that products that actually do what they claim deserve a little shout-out.
You should watch this recording on the Westinghouse TV set, it will be 22% clearer.
Pizza Pizza!!!! Pizza Pizza!!! great Ed Asner with no lines in the jury, I just wanted to hear him call out Ted! Mary! etc. Bill Shatner did a great job without changing character and Ralph Belamy was tops, Steve and Martin did awesome and the mom was great
The acting and story line were superb! Every bit as good as "12 Angry Men" but a flick I never heard about. A MUST WATCH for courtroom drama fans! Only on RUclips...
The off the record heart to heart the prosecutor gave to the defense attorney explains a lot about the US justice system.
Another great movie. An unexpected outcome, but I had hope all along.
Great movie real acting real emotion nothing like that today
Superb film. Thank you.👍🏻
Good movie with great ad's !
Never knew this movie was made...2 of my favorite actors...
Great cast. Period.
Broad band sure means something different today than it meant 50 years ago.
1957 I was in my last year of 8th grade at Haydock Jr high school in Oxnard California. In September of 1957 I would start my Freshman year at Oxnard High School!! May 16 I turned 14 yrs old..
You might be my son.
Fascinating! Gripping! I really do love the old stuff. Great story. Better a guilty man go free, than an innocent man be convicted.
Kept referring to a trick to win through the first half of the movie. Thought sure Shatner would pull-off the Kobayashi Maru.
Thank you. I've scrolled through all of these comments, just looking for someone to say that. Now I can get on with my life.
❤Wondeeful comments. Also love this kind of black n white flix... Clean entertainment.
Brilliant! Just brilliant!👍👍
A television play from the days before you had to pay for cable or other gouges. The television of my boyhood. Thanks to the recorder and thanks to the video poster
Live...
Immortal.
THANK YOU KINDLY CANADIAN FRIENDS OF WILLIAM SHATNER, A STARK TRED DEADHEAD FAN HERE, LOVED THIS FILM BECAUSE OF RALPH BELLAMY IN A CARY GRANT FILM THAT SOMEONE SAID HAD MORE SCRIPT WORDS THAN MOST IN THE ERA OF FILMMAKING JACK OF MANY TRADES SAID SO? OINK HE'S #clicking again with Toototabon, that hen, that chicken, PIZZAFLIX THANKS! 🐬🐬🐬
OINK AND QUACK AND NEIGHING UTTERERANCES OR/AND EXCEPTIONS TO WHAT HEARSAY RULE JACK? 🐬🐴
Possible spoiler alert: 1 hr in and for a half hour now I’ve been thinking Dr. Wallach killed his wife, for her money(?)
And I guess the “trick” is a look-alike(?)
Edit: So, I was right about the “trick” which was no trick on my part because it seems so obvious.
@1:46:18 Is that the smile of the cat that ate the canary creeping across Dr. Wallach’s face (thinking he’s gotten away with killing his wife) or resignation or . . . ? The actor did a great job of not showing us an obvious answer. Credit the producers with an interesting call for that one.
( Yes, I realize the argument against him smiling is the fact that now the police may take a hard look at him for the crime, but it’s Hollywood, so . . . (?)
Thanks!
now we can sit back and appreciate this...real TV courtroom drama... nothing like the trash that's churned out today... 👍🏿 love the Westinghouse commercials kindly note
The Judge was in two Star Trek episodes
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mr Attos and who?
Mr Atoz and Septimus, in the episode about the Roman empire. Bread and Circuses.
Yes and he's always the same age decade after decades.
@@tim9s oh my god i think i remember
$8.27 for a roast in 1957? seems kinda exspensive .
Not really
That's not per pound. That's for the total roast.
@@stephaniemurria5534 in 1957 pot roast cost 69 cents per pound , so maybe if it was a large one i guess.
Ten years later. He is comanding the star ship enterprise. Not bad.
Geeze, great movie, but alas I've still the narrow band set. IF, only a Go Fund Me was organized for me I could get the Broad Band set and enjoy this fine movie in detail. Sigh.
I just spotted Ed Asner in the jury near end of movie!
"TZZZERRRRRP" , THE SOUND OF A REPORTERS TYPEWRITER !☝
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thanks friend
"1 take will do I guess"
Future star fest! Thanks!
The commercials in this movie is like going to the 1960's Disneyland ride, Carousel of Progress!
I just kept seeing that guy in ... oh can't remember the name, the one about the Stock Exchange, seeing him explaining what Commodities are. And I kept seeing Shatner in the Beauty Contest film with Sandra Bullock, looking real stupid at the end when all hell broke loose ... 😅😅😅😅
Trading places
Thank-you for this intelligent and interesting movie.
live acting on tv. we rarely see this anymore!
AMAZING TRICK @ between 21:51 to 21:57 to make a lit cigarette suddenly appear 🧐
Not McQueens breakout role. The Magnificent Seven was the role that put Steve McQueen on the map. Without that, he might have been another Shatner, all TV for 20 years, but without the Big Screen comeback as "Captain Kirk".
The Great Escape, The Cincinnati Kid, Nevada Smith, The Sand Pebbles, Bullitt, The Thomas Crown Affair, The Getaway, Papillon... all of those roles sprung from his role as Vin in The Magnificent Seven.
He wasn't very impressive here. Overacting.
@@marmaly That has always been the typical criticism of McQueen when people didn’t care for him.
Wanted Dead or Alive put him on the map, just like Rawhide put Clint Eastwood on the map!
@@marmalyhis early performance were weak, but he evolved into a very good actor!
Thank you.
I BELIEVE I SAW ED ASNER ON THE JURY.
Yes he's there
Think Shatner is the only one still alive. He’s 93.
At least two of the actors were in a Twighlight episodes, and one of them was Shatner who was in at least two separate episodes from the other actor. Also, the man playing the prosecuting attorney in this movie was the jury foreman in 12 Angry Men. And it looks like the judge in this movie played a juror in 12 Angry Men.
Very good movie, thanks
Reminiscent of how excellent TV plays were in the 1950’s. Betty Furness pitching for Westinghouse. Enjoyed seeing so many familiar faces. Still miss Steve McQueen. 👍❤️
Just excellent!!!