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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767827959
ISBN: 0767827953
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 11, 2000
Running Time: 160 minutes
Sales Rank: 8206
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: July 01, 1959
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Product Description:
When his flirtatious young wife claims she was raped an army lieutenant kills her attacker and hires small town lawyer james stewart to defend him. Special features: subtitles in english spanish portuguese chinese korean and thai photo montage theatrical trailer talent files production notes and more.Studio: Sony Pictures Home EntRelease Date: 05/27/2008Starring: Lee Remick Ben CazzaraRun time: 160 minutesRating: Nr
Amazon.com essential video:
Otto Preminger turned this 1959 courtroom drama, based on the popular novel, into terrific adult drama. James Stewart stars as a small-town lawyer who defends an army officer (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a bartender who assaulted his wife (Lee Remick). The taut script, large performance by Stewart, and then-daring elements of the story (words like 'panties' are spoken in the context of discussing a sex crime) give the action a certain immediacy--which you don't find very often in today's movies about jurisprudence. Nice work by Remick and Gazzara, as well as George C. Scott, Arthur O'Connell, and real-life judge Joseph N. Welch, who plays the judge in this film. A very good experience all around. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - Preminger's most famous film, and one that holds up extremely well today...
I've been watching the entire Otto Preminger catalog lately, and I got around to seeing what is arguably his most famous film.Seeing it again makes me realise that it's a masterpiece of tension, performances, dialogue, and cinematography.
There is so much to like about this film.Nothing here in the trial or the characterisations is present in black and white (there's even a dialogue by Stewart to a potential witness about how people aren't black and white).It is full blown ambiguity, ... Read More
Rating: - CLASSIC COURTROOM DRAMA
This Otto Preminger directed film is vintage Jimmy Stewart who plays a country lawyer recently voted out of the county prosecutors office he held for many years. Fishing seems to have replaced legal work and as the film opens his long time secretary (Arden) is asking for enough money to cover her pay check. He needs a case to bring in some fees. Laura Manion (Remick) shows up looking for a lawyer to defend her Army officer husband, Lt. Frederick Manion (Gazzara) who is accused of murdering a local bartender ... Read More
Rating: - This is the movie for actual courtroom procedure viewing.
I was recommended this film as one of only a handful of films that adequately depicts real-life courtroom "skirmishes".Though the film rarely deviates from actual criminal procedures, the excellent screenplay and direction still delivers a fantastic, attention-grabbing thriller.The acting is superb (how could it be otherwise with exellent and hardworking Jimmy Stewart headlining) and the movie's pace keeps you vitally interested.This is one of my favorite movies.
Rating: - Anatomy of a Murder DVD
The movie was just as good as I remembered it.The acting was superb.It was interesting to see how our idea of "proper" attire has changed.
Rating: - Anatomy of a perfect courtroom drama
Anatomy of a Murder (Otto Preminger, 1957)
To call Anatomy of a Murder the definitive courtroom film is, perhaps, not going quite far enough. Sure, there had been others, and there are certainly other classic courtroom dramas, but Anatomy of a Murder seems to be the basis for the outpouring of courtroom films and TV shows we have today; the bickering of the lawyers, the badgering of the witnesses, the bamboozling of the jury.
The plot is very straightforward, compared to Law and Order ... Read More
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