Gideon’s trumpet was an interesting movie. This movie was made in 1980. The court case that is shown in this movie is Gideon v. Wainwright. This case established the right to legal representation in criminal trials.
Playing the part of Clarence Earl Gideon as a very stubborn not too well educated man from Florida, a four-time loser who managed to get the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court was Henry Fonda. The Florida penitentiary to which he is sentenced for five years for a crime the he did not commit is shown as a sort of summer camp for adult men. I'm pretty sure that the real “summer camp” was a night mare compared to the one that was showed in the movie.