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The film traces the story of Sam Sheppard (George Peppard), an Ohio doctor wrongly accused of murdering his wife in 1954. As the film begins, a dying Dr. Sam gasps “I know who killed Marilyn.”. [1] Sheppard is a successful osteopath in Cleveland working at the family clinic. He has an attractive wife Marilyn and a nine-year-old son.
- Drama
Nov 17, 1975 · Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case: Directed by Robert Michael Lewis. With George Peppard, Barnard Hughes, Walter McGinn, William Windom. The story of Dr. Sam Sheppard, an Ohio doctor convicted of murdering his wife, despite his vehement denials of the crime.
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- Drama
- Robert Michael Lewis
- 1975-11-17
Synopsis. A drama about the headline-making murder case involving Dr. Sam Sheppard, the Cleveland osteopathic surgeon who was convicted of the July 4, 1954 slaying of his wife Marilyn. The film relates the ten years he spent in prison and the famous re-trial of 1965 in which he was acquitted on grounds of insufficient evidence.
- Robert Michael Lewis
- Michael Keep
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Advertise With Us. Sam Sheppard (George Peppard) is a respected Ohio neurosurgeon whose pregnant wife is brutally murdered in their suburban home. Despite protests of his innocence, he's wrongly ...
- Drama
- George Peppard
- Robert Lewis
Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case (1975), starring George Peppard, is a television movie about this case. The Law & Order television series episode "Justice" is based on Sam Reese Sheppard's mission to clear his father's name. My Father's Shadow: The Sam Sheppard Story (1998), starring Peter Strauss, is a television movie about ...
He died in 1970 at the age of 46. The 150-minute TV movie Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case does not presume to decide the guilt or innocence of Sheppard; rather, it traces the disintegration of an already troubled man, as well as his infamous "trial by publicity".
Not so with the Sam Sheppard case. Facing two different juries, twelve years apart, Sam Sheppard was found guilty by one jury, not guilty by the next. Even over the past few years, partisans continue the debate. In 2001, a book on the Sheppard case concluded that Sam was clearly innocent.
