
A Time to Kill(1996)
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.



Tuesday Weld
Doris Winters

Ron Leibman
Detective Louis Kazinsky

Peter Masterson
Lieutenant Tom Wharton

Alex Rocco
Mel Duvall

Viveca Lindfors
Dr. Rosen

Lana Wood
Elizabeth Carson

Stephen Pearlman
Herman Golob

Ron Rifkin
Assistant District Attorney Verrell

Jim Antonio
Larry Winters

M. Emmet Walsh
Inspector McCartney
A Question of Guilt is a drama, thriller, tv movie film released in 1978 exploring themes of murder, divorcee, swinger, courtroom drama. Directed by Robert Butler, it stars Tuesday Weld, Ron Leibman, Peter Masterson. A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
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