Beyond Reasonable Doubt

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
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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

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.