Let Us Live

Let Us Live is a 1939 crime thriller film directed by John Brahm starring Maureen OSullivan, Henry Fonda and Ralph Bellamy.

On the eve of his marriage to waitress Mary Roberts OSullivan, taxi driver Brick Tennant is questioned as a murder suspect along with 120 other drivers, because a taxi served as the getaway car in a theater robbery in which a man was killed. When one of the witnesses swears that Brick and his friend Joe Linden Baxter were the killers, the district attorney Ridges, eager for a conviction, brings the taxi drivers to trial even though Brick and Mary were in a church when the robbery took place. Although innocent, Brick and Joe are found guilty and sentenced to die on the electric chair. Mary, however, refuses to give up hope, and when she unearths a bullet from another robbery that was shot from the murder weapon, she convinces Police Lieutenant Everett Bellamy that the wrong men have been convicted. To prove Brick and Joes innocence Everett and Mary search for the real culprits . As the time of his execution approaches, Brick is transformed from an idealistic youth into a man whose faith in the system has been shattered. On the day of the execution, Mary and Everett finally find the real culprits. The governor then pardons Brick, but although his life has been spared, his faith can never be repaired.

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