The story
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
Watch trailerCast & crew
James StewartMarsh Williams
Jean HagenMaggie Williams
Wendell CoreyCapt. H.T. Peoples
Carl Benton ReidClaude Williams
Paul Stewart'Dutch' Kruger
Otto HulettMobley
Rhys WilliamsRedwick Karson
Herbert HeyesLionel Daniels
James ArnessLeon Williams
Porter HallSam Markley
Fay RoopeDistrict Attorney
Ralph DumkeAndrew WhiteExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Art Cohn
- Director
- Richard Thorpe
- Producer
- Armand Deutsch
- Editor
- Newell P. Kimlin