Gideon's Trumpet (made-for-TV 1980)

Henry Fonda as Clarence Gideon, an impoverished drifter falsely convicted in 1961 of felony theft and sentenced to five years in prison because Florida would only appoint lawyers for indigent defendants in death penalty cases. He appealed his conviction and it was overturned by the Supreme Court.

With Jose Ferrer, John Housman, Fay Wray, Sam Jaffe, and Dean Jagger among others.

It was a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. It was straightforward, sort of flat. Prison didn't look half bad. Everyone was fine except for one guy. It's hard to imagine the U.S. has ever had any Supreme Court justice who looked or spoke like John Houseman.

It might make a double feature with Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956), another true story with Fonda playing a musician falsely accused of a series of robberies.