A dramatized reconstruction of actual events surrounding a notorious miscarriage of justice. Farmer Arthur Allan Thomas was jailed for the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe but later pardoned. Directed by John Laing, produced by John Barnett and starring well-known English actor David Hemmings (Blowup, Barbarella), the docudrama leveraged the immense public interest in the case (Thomas was released when the film was in post-production), and it was NZ's most successful commercial film until Goodbye Pork Pie.
The May 10th, 1980 issue of the NZ Listener carried an article by Phil Gifford, reporting directly from the set of Beyond Reasonable Doubt. The piece was prefaced by a remarkable photograph of actor John Hargreaves next to the ...
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