
Henry Fonda
Clarence Earl Gideon
True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.

Clarence Earl Gideon

Abe Fortas

Chief Justice / Offscreen Narrator

Edna Curtis

6th Supreme Court Justice

1st Supreme Court Justice

Jacob

5th Supreme Court Justice


As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. But instead of falling victim to racial hatred, the soldier joins forces with his fellow prisoners and rises up against the insanely tyrannical and bigoted prison warden.

A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released, and struggles to adjust to the outside world and escape his lurid past. He gets involved with a cheap dancehall girl, and when her protector is accidentally killed, they go on the lam together, getting jobs as farm labourers. But some fellow workers get wise to them.
Fred Turner

Judge Robert McCrary

Charlie

2nd Supreme Court Justice