The People Against O'Hara (Remastered Edition) (1951) On DVD

Actor:          Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak, Eduardo Ciannelli                                                                                                                      
Director:      John Sturges
Genre:         Drama
Year:            1951
Studio:         Warner/Allied Vaughn
Length:        102
Released:    January 5, 2012
Rating:         Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format:        DVD
Misc:            NTSC, Black & White
Language:   English
Subtitles  :   N/A

DESCRIPTION:

James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy) was once a brilliant defense attorney, saving scores from prison-time and death row. But that was before a part of him crawled inside a bottle and never crawled out. He now practices civil law...it's safer that way. But when John O'Hara (James Arness), a kid from the neighborhood, gets hauled up on Murder One, he allows himself to get cajoled into returning to his former vocation. It's a mistake. The DA runs circles around the alcohol addled attorney, and O'Hara now faces execution. It's Jimmy's worst nightmare come true. The question is, what's he planning to do about it? A young John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven) teams up with seasoned cinema vet Tracy for this noir-tinged legal drama, and it proves a potent combo - a solid, by-the-numbers thriller rises above the machinations of plot to provide a compelling portrait of a very good, but very weak man in thrall to some very bad, very strong impulses.