In an effective opening, Arthur Hill, (we only hear his voice in this scene: it's subjective camera), is told my his doctor that he's got 6 months to live. He marches out of the doctor's office, into the street. he contemplates suicide by stepping in front of a car but thinks better of it. Instead he goes to the office of his business, a partnership. he tells his partner what his prognosis is and asks him to agree to pay his family $500/mth after he dies. the partner refuses and Hill strangles him in a cold rage. it was Hill who created and built up the business and then brought this man on as a partner, who will now own the whole thing. His fortunate partner won't even lift a finger to help the founder's family and now he can't lift a finger to do anything.
the prosecutor, (J. D. Cannon) wants to skip the trial and just let the guy die in jail without putting him through it. What Hill doesn't know is that there's a law that he can't profit from committing a crime: his family can't inherit the business, (the partner had no family). Ken Preston takes up his case and tries to prove him innocent, claiming he didn't know what he was doing and is not responsible for his own actions.
A decade alter, Arthur Hill was playing a lawyer himself on Owen Marshall. In October, 1962, Arthur Hill really made his name when he created the role of George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Broadway.
the prosecutor, (J. D. Cannon) wants to skip the trial and just let the guy die in jail without putting him through it. What Hill doesn't know is that there's a law that he can't profit from committing a crime: his family can't inherit the business, (the partner had no family). Ken Preston takes up his case and tries to prove him innocent, claiming he didn't know what he was doing and is not responsible for his own actions.
A decade alter, Arthur Hill was playing a lawyer himself on Owen Marshall. In October, 1962, Arthur Hill really made his name when he created the role of George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on Broadway.
