Gerry conlon autobiography example

In the Name of the Father

Part I – Summary of the book and the movie

Part II - The Unreliability of Coerced Confessions is a Lesson to be Learned from In The Name of the Father: the story of the Guildford Four teaches us about the danger of relying on coerced confessions to obtain convictions of innocent people.

By Hans Sherrer

Published in Justice:Denied Magazine, Vol.

2, No. 4

 

In The Name of the Father

By Gerry Conlon (autobiography)
Published by Plume/Penguin Books, NY, 1993, 234 pages

Originally published as Proved Innocent (1990)

In The Name of the Father

Movie released by Universal Pictures, 1993
Produced by Hell's Kitchen/Gabriel Byrne

Directed by Jim Sheridan

Screenplay by Terry George based on Gerry Conlon’s autobiography Proved Innocent.
Featuring: Daniel Day Lewis as Gerry Conlon, Pete Postlethwaite as Giuseppe Conlon and Emma Thompson as Gareth Peirce

Available on VHS & DVD.

133 Minutes, Rated R for violence and language.