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Gideon's Trumpet is a 1980 American made-for-television historical drama film based on the biographical book of the same name written by Anthony Lewis. The film depicts the historical events before and during the 1963 United States Supreme Court case of Gideon v.
Apr 30, 1980 · Gideon's Trumpet: Directed by Robert L. Collins. With Henry Fonda, José Ferrer, John Houseman, Fay Wray. The story of Clarence Earl Gideon and his fight for the right to have publicly funded legal counsel for the needy.
Dec 27, 2020 · The Story of Carl Earl Gideon and his fight for the right to have public fundedlegal counsel for the needy.Exceptional Film
TV-PG 1980 1h 45m Drama. List. In 1961, Clarence Earl Gideon (Henry Fonda) is arrested on charges of petty theft. Unable to afford an expensive lawyer to defend him, he is forced to...
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Gideon's Trumpet. The story of Clarence Earl Gideon (Henry Fonda) and his fight for the right to have publicly funded legal counsel for the needy. 156 IMDb 7.1 1 h 43 min 1980. X-Ray 13+. Drama · Historical.
Gideon's Trumpet. DRAMA. Henry Fonda gives one of the finest (and final) performances of his distinguished career as Clarence Gideon, the destitute prisoner whose handwritten plea for the right to counsel changed the course of American legal history.
In one of his final television roles, Henry Fonda stars as the semi-literate Florida drifter whose court case--being denied counsel at a breaking-and-entering trial because of his inability to afford a lawyer--drastically changed the course of American legal history.
