In 1953, an innocent man named Christopher Emanuel "Manny" Balestrero is arrested after being mistaken for an armed robber.
Featuringan Introduction and Discussion by Film Historian Foster Hirsch
About Foster Hirsch
Foster Hirsch is a New York-based film historian, author, and professor at Brooklyn College, known for his books on film and theater, including The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, A Method to Their Madness: The History of the Actors Studio, and Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties.