Darrow (UK)
Some people called him "Lawyer for the Damned"...
Certificate: 12
Running Time: 0 mins
Retail Price: £12.99
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
Some people called him "Lawyer for the Damned"... but Clarence Darrow was simply a man who, in time of justice, had the courage to stand alone.
The name Clarence Darrow is permanently limked to the tremendous strides in the American legal system from the late 19th century through the early decades of the twentieth century. This complex and charismatic one-time farm boy`s history-making legal defences of the Pullman Railroad Strike, the Leopold/Loeb Murder Trail and the Scopes Monkey Trail, have earned him the status of an authentic American hero.
Special Features:
Video Tracks:
Standard 1.33:1
Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 English
Directed By:
John David Coles
Written By:
Stephen Stept
William Schmidt
Starring:
Erin Cressida Wilson
Gerard Malone
Paul Klementowicz
Bob Tracey
Kevin Spacey
Casting By:
Douglas Aibel
Soundtrack By:
Richard Einhorn
Director of Photography:
Paul Murphy
Editor:
Angelo Corrao
Costume Designer:
Calista Hendrickson
Production Designer:
Vincent Peranio
Producer:
Stephen Stept
Richard Heus
Executive Producer:
Ricki Franklin
Distributor:
Arrow Films
Your Opinions and Comments
The video transfer is awful. Being a made-for-tv movie, the fullscreen transfer is acceptable. However, it seems the source material was a very bad VHS cassette. The picture is out of focus and a lot of video artifacts can be seen throughout the movie. The blacks are rendered as dark greens or pale blues and are anything but black.
The DD 2.0 soundtrack is appropriate, although I would have preferred a center channel.
The menus are still with some music.
The disk offers no extras at all.
Bottom line - a good story and a great performance are ruined by an awful disk.