That’s the closest I’ll ever get to being published by FIPRESCI.
Feels good to help out.

J-P. C. on the two court cases that bookend the movie: “In both cases the defendant turns out to be innocent, although the way innocence is established blithely ignores due process, courtroom procedure and the letter of the law (which, Priest reminds us at one point, is less important to him than its spirit). The use and abuses of the law are frequent themes of Ford’s movies, which often deal with unfairly harsh sentences and miscarriages of justice.”