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Anatomy of a Murder
1959
Synopsis
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. Unfolding over an extensive trial, his case rests on the victim’s mysterious business partner, who’s hiding a dark secret.
Editorial
Austro-Hungarian émigré Otto Preminger’s movies dissect American society with surgical precision. This stands as his great masterpiece: a groundbreaking, enthralling, gold standard courtroom drama revealing cracks in the very notion of justice. Starring James Stewart, with music by Duke Ellington.
