Let Us Live

1939

Let Us Live

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Release date: Jul 21, 1939

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Despite its comparatively upbeat ending, Let Us Live is one of the darkest and gloomiest films of the late 1930s. As working stiff Brick Tennant, Henry Fonda is once more cast as a misunderstood victim of society. Held up during a robbery-murder, Brick is himself convicted of the crime on the basis of circumstantial evidence and faulty eyewitness testimony. The authorities remain unsympathetic to the hero's plight throughout, automatically assuming that just because he's poor he's likely to be a killer. Only his sweetheart Mary Roberts (Maureen O'Sullivan) believes in Brick's innocence, and it is she who sets the wheels in motion for the ultimate capture of the genuine culprit, a scant few minutes before Brick's "long walk" to the electric chair. Based on Joseph F. Dineen's Murder in Massachusetts, the real-life story of a near-fatal miscarriage of justice in 1934, Let Us Live refuses to compromise its pessimistic tone with a phony "all smiles" fadeout. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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Cast

Maureen O'Sullivan
as Mary Roberts
Henry Fonda
as John J. 'Brick' Tennant
Ralph Bellamy
as Police Lt. Everett
Alan Baxter
as Joe Linden
Stanley Ridges
as District Attorney
Henry Kolker
as Chief of Police
Peter George Lynn
as Joe Taylor
George Douglas
as Ed Walsh
Philip Trent
as Frank Burke
Martin Spellman
as Jimmy Dugan
Charles Trowbridge
as Judge
Dick Elliott
as Rotarian Juror
Alec Craig
as Bookkeeper Juror
Byron Foulger
as Defense Attorney
Harry Holman
as Businessman Juror
George Cheseboro
as Jail Guard
Emmett Vogan
as Bank Cashier
Arthur Loft
as Warden
Joseph De Stefani
as Dentist Juror
Harry C. Bradley
as Driver
Betty Farrington
as Mother Juror
Al Herman
as Garage Attendant Juror
Jessie Perry
as Head of PTA Juror
Billy Lee
as Public Accountant Juror
Harry A. Bailey
as Drug Clerk Juror
Phil Dunham
as Nervous Man Juror
John Qualen
as Dan
William V. Mong
as Joe Taylor Sr.
Ian Maclaren
as Priest
Clarence Wilson
as Lunchroom Proprietor
Ray Walker
as Fred Robinson
Beatrice Curtis
as Waitress
Eddie Laughton
as Cab Driver
Ann Doran
as Secretary Juror
Dick Curtis
as Cellmate
James Blaine
as Detective
Monte Vandergrift
as Detective
Ted Oliver
as Detective
Herbert Heywood
as Theater Watchman
William Royle
as Prison Guard
Edmund Cobb
as Blair
Tom London
as Police Sergeant
George Chesebro
as Jail Guard
Lee Shumway
as Warden's Attendant
Bessie Wade
as Woman
Philip Morris
as Cop
Eric Alden
as Cop
Lee Phelps
as Cop
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