User Reviews

When it came time for Attorney Vernon Wedge (Brian Keith) to make the case for the chemical test on the knife, the story introduced an obvious flaw to his tactic. In order to establish credibility, he should have argued for the chemical's reliability by offering to test it on a knife that obviously DID have blood on it so the jurors could see how it worked. The way he brought it up, the jury would simply have to believe Wedge was telling the truth, but there would have been no way of knowing that. As it is, the prosecuting attorney objected to the test the way Wedge argued for it, and the judge agreed. For the jury to find Benjy Marino (Rod Lauren) not guilty was also a stretch, but was necessary for the twist ending, which I found to be unusually frustrating, since by cutting his own palm, Benjy's father (Eduardo Ciannelli) pretty much proved that his son was guilty after all. It made the conniving father look even worse than his son.