Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is a 1956 film with Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine. See the storyline, runtime (80 minutes) and complete cast list on 123movies. A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.