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Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Drama Crime Mystery

No search of human emotions has ever probed so deeply, so truthfully as… Anatomy of a Murder.

Release Date: 1959, July 1
Directors: Otto Preminger
Countries: United States of America
Production: Columbia Pictures, Otto Preminger Films
Cast: Murray Hamilton, James Stewart, Eve Arden, Ben Gazzara, Kathryn Grant, John Qualen, Orson Bean, Joseph Kearns, George C. Scott, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Remick, Ken Lynch

Overview:

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.

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