In the swamp of crime
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | In the swamp of crime |
| Original title | Just cause |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Arne Glimcher |
| script |
Peter Stone , Jeb Stuart |
| production | Arne Glimcher, Steve Perry , Lee Rich |
| music | James Newton Howard |
| camera | Lajos Koltai |
| cut |
William M. Anderson , Armen Minasian |
| occupation | |
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In the Swamp of Crime ( Just Cause ) is an American thriller directed by Arne Glimcher from 1995 . The script by Peter Stone and Jeb Stuart is based on a novel by John Katzenbach .
action
Paul Armstrong is a law professor at Harvard University . His views are considered liberal. You can see him pleading against the death penalty in a panel discussion . After the discussion, he is approached by Bobby Earl's grandmother. Bobby Earl was convicted of murder in Florida and is due to be executed on the electric chair . She hands him a letter from Bobby Earl asking Armstrong to defend him. ( Deviation from the book: Here the main actor is a reporter and the convicted person writes to him directly )
The professor first has doubts; he had the last client 25 years earlier. Then he'll take over the case.
Earl, an African American who graduated from Cornell University , allegedly raped and murdered a young white girl. He tells Armstrong that two racist police officers forced him to make the confession. He was interrogated and tortured for 22 hours without a break.
Armstrong meets the serial killer Blair Sullivan, who is also waiting to be executed . He points Armstrong to the gun he allegedly used to kill the little girl. Bobby Earl is released.
But later it turns out that Earl is actually guilty and that Sullivan and Earl have made a date: If Sullivan takes the guilt of Earl, Earl kills Sullivan's parents in return. You are found dead. Earl seeks revenge on Armstrong's wife, Laurie, who had indicted him, albeit unsuccessfully, as a prosecutor in an earlier trial. At that time he spent one night in detention where he was neutered. When he kidnaps her and her daughter Kate and wants to kill them in a remote house in the middle of the swamp, Armstrong appears in time. Earl is shot by Armstrong, the two fight each other in the swamp, whereupon Earl is ultimately stabbed by Armstrong.
Reviews
Desson Howe wrote in the Washington Post of 17 February 1995, the film was "brutal" and "terribly manipulative" ( " horribly manipulative "). Numerous elements of the plot are known from earlier "better films".
background
The shooting took place in Florida and in Cambridge ( Massachusetts instead). The film grossed approximately $ 36.85 million in US cinemas .
additional
In a dialogue with Armstrong Bobby Earl mentioned the so-called Crab Pot metaphor , after people in the ghetto do not like to see if it of them in the working world a create would.
Web links
- Just Cause in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Just Cause at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Comparison of the cut versions FSK 12 TV - FSK 16 of Im Sumpf des Verbrechens at Schnittberichte.com
- In the swamp of crime in the German synchronous file