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Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama film produced and directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by Wendell Mayes was based on the 1958 novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name of Robert Traver.
Anatomy of a Murder: Directed by Otto Preminger. With James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell. An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler (James Stewart) takes the case of Army Lt. Manion (Ben Gazzara), who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife (Lee Remick) claimed that he raped her.
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When a murder takes place in a trailer park on the outskirts of town, he is asked to defend Lt. Frederick Manion who admits to having killed Barney Quill, a local bar owner who allegedly raped his wife. Manion claims to have had a form of temporary insanity.
Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Not Once Not Ever Michigan attorney Biegler (James Stewart) has learned that saucy Laura (Lee Remick), a rape victim and the wife of his soldier client (Ben Gazzara), charged with killing her attacker, has passed a lie detector test, but he has further questions, in Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder ...
Anatomy Of A Murder. When his flirtatious young wife (Lee Remick) claims she was raped, an army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) kills her attacker and hires a small-town lawyer (James Stewart) to defend him. 2,039 IMDb 8.0 2 h 40 min 1959. X-Ray HDR UHD 13+. Drama · Compelling · Intense · Serious. Watch with a free Prime trial. Watch with Prime.
Assistant director. David Silver. Titles designed by. Saul Bass. A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan lawyer who takes on a difficult case: the defense of a young army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife (Lee Remick).
