A taxi driver (Henry Fonda) and his waitress girlfriend (Maureen O'Sullivan) plan on buying their dream house and his starting up his own taxi cab business. But when he and a friend (Alan Baxter) are arrested for murder after being identified by witnesses, his fiancee is determined to find the evidence to prove their innocence. Based on the short story MURDER IN MASSACHUSETTS by Joseph F. Dinneen and directed by John Brahm (HANGOVER SQUARE). The story itself was based on a real murder case although much dramatic license has been taken. Some 17 years before Fonda played the wrongly accused man in Hitchcock's THE WRONG MAN, this film is very similar thematically and in its outcome. It's a solid effort and even Fonda (not a favorite) is good. But the movie really belongs to the feisty O'Sullivan. The film is also subtly anti-capital punishment. With Ralph Bellamy, Stanley Ridges and John Qualen.
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