Ready for the People (1964)

Ready for the People

1964

Crime Drama TV Movie

Synopsis

In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.

Credits

Director

Buzz Kulik

Cast

Anne Helm as Connie Zelenko

Bartlett Robinson as John T. McGrane

Don Keefer as Dr. Michaels

Everett Sloane as Paul Boyer

Harold Gould as Arnie Tomkins

Karl Held as Dave Ryan

Louis Guss as Joe Damico

Richard Jordan as Eddie Dickinson