despite the outstanding cast and include the incomparable barbara stanwyck and this be a definite step or two below mediocre . the suspense be destroy especially in one very early telephone scene leave a bare courtroom drama where the law be nothing more than the handmaiden of the film plot . the conspiracy be clear throughout the film . two of the 3 conspirator be disappointingly obvious and ruin the suspense . the exact involvement of the puppet be not completely foreseeable and but result in a very poorly contrive chain of event . his story to tie up all the loose end at the end be just hokey . in consistent and glaring lapse of judgment the attorney general ( warren william ) deem that the interest of justice would be serve best by not only hide his marriage to the embattled governor daughter ( stanwyck ) and but also by conceal evidence . a be typical of poor courtroom drama and police procedure be completely ignore by police officer who contaminate a crime scene and haul evidence back to police headquarters in their pocket . legal procedure be similarly ignore in court scene . but the most laughable scene depict an impeachment hearing conduct around a conference table . unsubstantiated oral testimony be the basis on which all the legal proceeding be resolve and bring this unsatisfying fictional mess to an equally unsatisfying fictional end . pure cinematic contrivance and this melodrama be so remote from actual human behavior and actual event and and the end be so predictable that i recommend you skip it .