Ordeal by Innocence

Dr Calgary returns home from an expedition and goes looking for a hitchhiker whom he gave a lift to two years previously in order to return the man's address book. He discovers the man has been executed for his mother's murder.

Ordeal by Innocence is a 1985 mystery thriller movie, starring Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer. It holds an IMDb rating of 5.2/10 from 1,508 votes and runs 1h 30m.