Beyond Reasonable Doubt

The police led by Inspector Bruce Hutton (DAVID HEMMINGS) had little to go on. No bodies, few clues, no motive. For three months a massive search operation concetrated on finding the victims - a local farmer and his wife. Suspicion focussed on...
New Zealand Production
Feature 1980 Drama 104.00 minutes
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The true story of the six-year fight to free a farmer who's jailed for a double murder which he didn't commit. June 22 1970. The discovery of a baby in an empty bloodstained farmhouse brings police and searchers to a tiny New Zealand farming settlement, beginning a series of events which will divide a country and dominate headlines for the next ten years. Beyond Reasonable Doubt is the film of the most baffling and controversial case in New Zealand history.

Directors

John Laing

Producers

John Barnett

Screenplay Writers

David Yallop

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