The Chair

Overview

Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007.

Cast

P

Paul Crump

Self

J

James Lipscomb

Narrator

Robert Drew

Correspondent

G

Gregory Shuker

Correspondent

J

John Macdonald

Correspondent

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