Let Us Live
1939 film by John Brahm / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Let Us Live is a 1939 American crime film directed by John Brahm starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Henry Fonda and Ralph Bellamy.[1][2]
Let Us Live | |
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Directed by | John Brahm |
Screenplay by | Anthony Veiller Allen Rivkin |
Based on | Murder in Massachusetts 1936 Harper's Magazine by Joseph F. Dinneen |
Produced by | William Perlberg |
Starring | Maureen O'Sullivan Henry Fonda Ralph Bellamy |
Cinematography | Lucien Ballard |
Edited by | Al Clark |
Music by | Karol Rathaus |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 68 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The script of the film was adapted from the 1936 Harper's Magazine story "Murder in Massachusetts" by Joseph F. Dinneen about a real criminal case.[3] In 1934 two Boston taxi drivers were identified by several witnesses as the culprits who murdered a man during a theater robbery in Lynn, Massachusetts. Their trial was in progress for two weeks and it seemed likely that the two were going to be found guilty when the real killers were arrested for another crime and then admitted to the Lynn robbery-murder.[4]
Columbia Pictures had planned a much bigger production, but after political pressure from the state of Massachusetts the film's budget and publicity were scaled down considerably, and it was ultimately released as a B movie.[3]