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Let Us Live · LeviOsa

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1939·NR

Let Us Live

A love more powerful than any law that man could make!

CrimeDramaThriller1h 5m

🍅43%

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43%

Tomatometer

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43%

Popcornmeter

6.8

TMDB

Storyline

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in. Though no one is willing to listen to the innocent prisoner's pleas for freedom, Brick's faithful fiancée, Mary, knows that her lover is innocent because she was with him when the crime was committed. As the scheduled execution draws ever nearer, Mary begins to investigate the murder herself.

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Details

DirectorJohn Brahm

ReleasedMar 29, 1939

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNRUS

Studio

Columbia Pictures

Cast

Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen O'Sullivan

Mary Roberts

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

"Brick" Tennant

Ralph Bellamy

Ralph Bellamy

Lieutenant Everett

Alan Baxter

Alan Baxter

Joe Linden

Stanley Ridges

Stanley Ridges

District Attorney

Henry Kolker

Henry Kolker

Chief of Police

George Lynn

George Lynn

Joe Taylor

George Douglas

George Douglas

Ed Walsh

Phillip Trent

Phillip Trent

Frank Burke

Martin Spellman

Martin Spellman

Jimmy Dugan

Ralph Remley

Bill Henderson (uncredited)

Arthur Stuart Hull

Arthur Stuart Hull

Crandall (uncredited)

Where to watch(NG)

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fuboTV

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Reviews

5 reviews · 4 critics

3 fresh · 1 rotten

R

Robert Daniels

RTRogerEbert.comAug 24, 2024

By the end, Fonda is a completely different person — draped in an uncontrollable rage that foreshadows the later darkened turn he’d take in “Once Upon a Time in the West.”

B

Betsy Sherman

RTArts FuseNov 7, 2025

As it stands, the film seems rushed and without sufficient connective tissue.

D

Dennis Schwartz

RTDennis Schwartz Movie ReviewsOct 21, 2014

It's one of those familiar race against time thrillers to save an innocent man from the electric chair.

S

Sean Axmaker

RTParallax ViewMar 24, 2013

What Brahm brings to the film is a terror born of official indifference... and he turns the race to stop the execution into a battle with bureaucracy.

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Information

Title

Let Us Live

Released

Mar 29, 1939

Rated

NR

Region of Origin

United States of America

Original Audio

English

Runtime

1h 5m

Status

Released

Studio

Columbia Pictures

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