Starring Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney
with Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis, Walter Brennan

Passing through a backwoods American town, Joe Wilson is arrested, on the flimsiest of evidence, for the kidnapping of a small girl. When an angry lynch-mob sets fire to the jail Joe is apparently killed.
In one of the screen's most powerful indictments of mob rule, Spencer Tracy stars as the innocent Joe, who, robbed of his trust in human beings, plans a terrible revenge on his would-be lynchers.