- HD 1080
- Runtime: 74m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Richard L. Bare
- Stars: Viveca Lindfors, Kent Smith, Janis Paige, Robert Douglas, John Alvin
- keywords: crooked lawyer, flashback, film noir, impersonator, trapped, double cross, guard dog, told in flashback, trapped underground, impersonation fraud, trapped in a well
- Production_studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Slogan: Trapped! Tricked! and Treacherous!
- The This Side of the Law is featured in the top rankings of 1950
- #78 in Top Crime Movies of 1950
A man - trapped in a cistern - reflects on the dark events that lead to his lonely entrapment. Told in flashback, we witness his chance encounter with a nefarious lawyer who persuades him to impersonate a wealthy man who went missing 7 years ago.