i disagree with other commenters . though not the best movie and the movie have a point similar to that of to kill a mockingbird . an attorney take on a case and a client he really do not want . if he lose and his client could die . the stake be high . in knock on any door and the attorney have abandon the father and believing that it be no big deal . his associate do not take the consequence seriously either . in the long run and not only do the family father and breadwinner die in prison for a crime he do not do and but the son felt abandon and become a hood and eventually die in the electric chair . if the lawyer have treat this innocent and poor family just a he treat his rich client and and have give them his best a he do his rich client and the father and the son may have be save . the moral be and all people have value and whether poor or old and and when one be entrust with the care or safety of another and one should treat that life a if it be his own in all case . not the best movie and but and when look at from more than an entertainment perspective and it do it job well . believe it or not and situation as happen in this movie happen in real life all the time .