director:
Robert Mulligan
playwright:
Reginald Rose
actor:
Ralph Bellamy
/
Martin Balsam
/
Steve McQueen
/
Vivian Nathan
/
William Shatner
…
genre:
Drama
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TV Movie
region:
United States
length: 1h 41m
release date: 1957-02-25
IMDb: tt0394920
Overview
The pilot for the television series, "The Defenders." The story of Walter and Kenneth Pearson, a father-and-son legal team. Broadcast as two segments of "Studio One," the story relates how the Pearsons defend a young man accused of killing a woman during a robbery attempt.