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Reviews 37% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings After being accused of murdering a shopkeeper, Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) begs retired lawyer James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy) to represent...
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- John Sturges
- Crime, Drama
- Spencer Tracy
The People Against O'Hara is a slightly offbeat film to have come out in 1951. It's both a crime picture and a fairly realistic study of alcoholism. The photography is by noir tyro John Alton, and in many of its night-time and shadowy scenes the movie looks like a thriller, which it really isn't.
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Recommendations. Under the Gun. Jim Curtayne, formerly a successful defense attorney who is now a recovering alcoholic, attempts a comeback when he defends a neighbor's son facing a homicide charge.
The People Against O'Hara: Directed by John Sturges. With Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak. Jim Curtayne, formerly a successful defense attorney who is now a recovering alcoholic, attempts a comeback when he defends a neighbor's son facing a homicide charge.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- John Sturges
- 1951-09-01
Reviews. Dec 31, 1950 11:00pm PT. The People Against O’Hara. A basically good idea for a film melodrama [from a novel by Eleazar Lipsky] is cluttered up with too many unnecessary side twists and...
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The stamp of noir master John Alton and his camera is all over the opening sequence of John Sturges’ blandly titled The People Against O’Hara, in which a few strangers converge on a corner bar just in time to witness a shooting on a stoop across the street and the killer’s car speeding away, golden light appearing in neighboring windows ...