Winterset

Winterset (1936)

A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.

Date of release
1936-12-03
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (18)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Romance, Crime, Drama
Director
Alfred Santell

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Winterset
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 2. Including: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films

Winterset is a 1936 American crime film directed by Alfred Santell, based on the 1935 play of the same name by Maxwell Anderson, in a loose dramatization of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and execution in 1928. The script retains elements of the blank verse poetic meter on which Anderson based his 1935 Winterset Broadway theater production.

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