"The Best Seller They Damned and Banned"
To help with an upcoming election, a bookstore clerk is indicted for selling obscene material. The defense attorneys need to uncover the mystery of the original publication of the book.
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Wayne Maunder
Mike Barrett
Marianne McAndrew
Maggie Russell
Philip Carey
Elmo Duncan
Jay C. Flippen
Luther Yerkes
Edy Williams
Faye Osborn
Yvonne De Carlo
Constance Cumberland
John Carradine
Sean O'Flanagan
Harold J. Stone
Judge Upshaw
Tom Selleck
Phil Sanford
Stanley Adams
Irwin Blair
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