Incident in an Alley

After beat cop Bill Joddy shoots and kills a fleeing suspect, the victim is found to be a 14-year-old boy. Joddy is charged with manslaughter but is acquitted by a jury. He begins to question his own culpability while trying to prove that the boy was participating in a robbery just before he was shot. ==Cast==

• Chris Warfield as Bill Joddy • Erin O'Donnell as Jean Joddy • Harp McGuire as Frank • Virginia Christine as Mrs. Connell • Willis Bouchey as Police Capt. Tom Brady • Don Keefer as Roy Swanson • Michael Vandever as Gussie Connell • Gary Judis as Charlie • Jim Canino as Mushie (as James Canino) • Clancy Cooper as Police Sergeant ==TV play==

The film was based on a television play written by Rod Serling that had aired in 1955 as part of The United States Steel Hour starring Farley Granger. ==Production==

It was then announced as a film project by United Artists. Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse were assigned to produce, with Serling adapting the screenplay, but the film was not made until several years later. ==Reception==

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Howard Thompson wrote: "For all its devious, transparent moralizing about the shooting of a young boy by a policeman, 'Incident in an Alley' belongs in one. The synthetic, floridly hewn little melodrama that opened yesterday on the circuits is strictly pulp stuff, conventionally posing a background of juvenile delinquency and the business of adult 'responsibility.'" ==See also==