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Anatomy of a Murder
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
1959 · Directed by Otto Preminger · 161 min · Crime · Drama · Mystery · 26 frames
Tagline
Last year's No. 1 best-seller...This year's No. 1 motion picture.
Crew
- Screenplay: Wendell Mayes
- Cinematography: Sam Leavitt
- Edited by: Louis R. Loeffler
- Music: Duke Ellington
- Production design: Boris Leven
- Produced by: Otto Preminger
Cast
- James Stewart as Paul "Pauly" Biegler
- Lee Remick as Laura Manion
- Ben Gazzara as Lieutenant Frederick "Manny" Manion
- Arthur O'Connell as Parnell Emmett "Parn" McCarthy
- Eve Arden as Maida Rutledge
- Kathryn Grant as Mary Pilant
- George C. Scott as AAG Claude Dancer
- Orson Bean as Dr. Matthew Smith
- Russ Brown as Deputy Sheriff George Lemon
- Murray Hamilton as Alphonse "Al" Paquette
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Carlyle Productions, Columbia Pictures
- Budget: $2,000,000
- Box office: $8,000,000
- Themes: adultery, jealousy, rape, based on novel or book, court case, michigan, judge, hays code, jazz, jurors
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