Rossen delivered one of the angriest, most vociferous of the Thirties’ social problem films with his screenplay for They Won’t Forget, a bitter indictment of racial prejudice based on the infamous Leo Frank case in which a Jewish factory worker was framed by a dummy court and lynched by a vengeful mob in Georgia. Claude Rains adds extraordinary psychological nuance to his performance as a career-hungry District Attorney in the Deep South who fans the flames of injustice, essentially railroading a young teacher for murder despite his own personal and professional misgivings about the incendiary case.