Double Jeopardy (1955)

Director
R.G. Springsteen

Main cast
Rod Cameron; Gale Robbins; Allison Hayes; Jack Kelly; John Litel

Genres
Crime

Description
Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.


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