The Man Who Dared
One man stands up to his dangerous corrupt local small town government.
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"THE MAN WHO DARED (Warner Brothers, 1939), directed by Crane Wilbur, is a minor second feature production previously produced by the studio as STAR WITNESS (1931) starring Walter Huston, Charles "Chic" Sale and Sally Blane. Sometimes labeled under another title, I AM NOT AFRAID, THE MAN WHO DARED (bearing no relation to the 1933 Fox Film of the same name starring Preston Foster) is another studio theme dealing with sole witnesses to a crime who become threatened when summoned to court to expose those responsible. While the 1931 original dealt with gangsters as the threatening source,..."
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This was one of the few movies that received an "Approved" certificate despite two violations of the production code: the evildoers did not receive their just desserts by the end, and police officials were not portrayed as champions of good. Frank Shaw, a former mayor of Los Angeles, filed a $1-million lawsuit against Warner Bros., claiming the corrupt mayor in the movie was modelled after him, and that it showed he was responsible for the bombing of a private investigator. Shaw had been voted out of office in 1938 in a campaign against political corruption led by a civic reform group (which had hired a private detective to investigate the mayor; it was that detective's house that had been bombed). Warner Bros. countered that the movie was a remake of a 1931 film, but nevertheless Warners' East Coast ad campaign for the film called it "The Ex-Mayor's Libel Suit Picture".
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One man stands up to his dangerous corrupt local small town government.