title: The Man Who Dared (1946 film)
text: # The Man Who Dared (1946 film)
  
  The Man Who Dared is a 1946 American film noir crime film directed by John Sturges, which serves as the first film he directed.
  
  ## Plot
  
  It tells the story of a reporter who concocts a false case so as to get himself convicted for first degree murder. He does this to prove that a death sentence could be erroneously issued based on circumstantial and flawed evidence and that the death penalty should be abolished.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Leslie Brooks as Lorna Claibourne
  * George Macready as Donald Wayne
  * Forrest Tucker as Larry James
  * Charles D. Brown as Dist. Atty. Darrell Tyson
  * Warren Mills as Felix
  * Richard Hale as Reginald Fogg
  * Charles Evans as Judge
  * Trevor Bardette as Police Sgt. Arthur Landis
  * William Newell as Police Sgt. Clay
  
  ## Movies with similar themes
  
  * Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
  * Bidugade (1973)
  * Abhilasha (1983)
  * The Life of David Gale (2003)
  