Frederick Manion, un teniente del ejército, asesina fríamente al presunto violador de su mujer. Tras su detención, se celebra el juicio. Su mujer contrata como abogado defensor a un honrado hombre de leyes.

Austro-Hungarian émigré Otto Preminger’s movies dissect American society with surgical precision. This stands as his great masterpiece: a groundbreaking, enthralling, gold standard courtroom drama revealing cracks in the very notion of justice. Starring James Stewart, with music by Duke Ellington.