The Chair
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
Paul Crump
Self
James Lipscomb
Narrator
Robert Drew
Correspondent
Gregory Shuker
Correspondent
John Macdonald
Correspondent
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