This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.
Witness for the Prosecution
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8.2/10
Party Girl
1958
6.8/10
Woman of Straw
1964
6.2/10
21 Grams
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7.3/10
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6.9/10
Caught
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6.6/10
'G' Men
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6.6/10
Coffy
1973
6.6/10
Dying Young
1991
6.7/10
Desperate Measures
1998
6.0/10
Heaven
2002
6.5/10
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7.8/10
No Way Out
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6.9/10
Angel Face
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7.1/10
Lonely Hearts
2006
6.1/10
A Prayer Before Dawn
2018
6.7/10
Cape Fear
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7.3/10
The Enforcer
2022
7.0/10
The Killing
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7.6/10
The Man with the Golden Arm
1955
7.1/10
Earth Girls Are Easy
1988
5.654/10
