He insisted that he was innocent and that, if someone had poured accelerant through the house and lit it, then the killer remained free.

NEWYORKER: Trial by Fire

An innocent woman hauled off for electric shock treatment, stolen children butchered by an ax murderer, a mom confronting the killer -- even in Eastwood's sober accounting, this makes for heavy-duty melodrama.

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