About this title: The positive public response to such productions as Crossfire and Gentleman's Agreement led to a mini-cycle of postwar anti-prejudice films. One of these was The Vicious Circle, based on a true incident which had previously been dramatized in G. W. Pabst's The Trial. In the late-19th century, an anti-Semitic Hungarian baron (Reinhold Schunzel) foments a pogrom against his country's Jews when a 14-year-old servant girl commits suicide. Falsely accused of subjecting the girl to a ritualistic murder, five Jewish farmers are put on trial for murder. Defying the slings and arrows of public ...
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Description: Conrad Nagel, Fritz Kortner, Reinhold Schunzel, Philip Van Zandt, Lyle Talbot, Edwin Maxwell. New in new packaging. 1948 Run time: 77. 19th Century Vienna is the scene as an anti-semitic baron arrests five Jewish farmers for the murder of a 14 year old servant girl. Nagel is the attorney who believes the girl may have committed suicide, and fights the prejudice of an entire community to achieve justice. Based on a true story, "The Burning Bush", by Herald and Geza Herczeg. read more
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