The Man Who Had Influence (1950)

• 57%
• 1950
• Drama
• TV Movie
• Franklin J. Schaffner
• Stanley Ridges
• Robert Sterling
• Eva Marie Saint

Influential senator J.C. Grant has been extricating his son David from numerous scrapes and eventuality he spoiled scion is expelled from college. Things take a darker turn when a drunken David offers a club cigarette girl a ride home in his car and has an accident. Although the young woman bleeds o death as a consequence of his actions, the young Grant has no memory of the event. When he is indicted for manslaughter, his father uses his clout to get a respected judge assigned, a vulnerable jurist with a dying wife on the edge of bankruptcy whom he hopes will be susceptible to coercion.