They Won't Forget

They Won't Forget
Directed byMervyn LeRoy (credited as "A Mervyn LeRoy Production")
Written byRobert Rossen
Aben Kandel
Based onDeath in the Deep South
1936 novel
by Ward Greene
Produced byMervyn LeRoy
Jack L. Warner
StarringClaude Rains
Gloria Dickson
Edward Norris
Lana Turner
CinematographyArthur Edeson
Edited byThomas Richards
Music byAdolph Deutsch
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • July 14, 1937 (1937-07-14)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

They Won't Forget is a 1937 American drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, and Lana Turner, in her feature debut. It was based on a novel by Ward Greene called Death in the Deep South, which was in turn a fictionalized account of a real-life case: the trial and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank after the murder of Mary Phagan in 1913.