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Director Otto Preminger
Screenplay Wendell Mayes

Anatomy of a Murder

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

Release Date: 1959-07-01

Duration: 161 minutes

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. 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.

Casting

  • Orson Bean
    Dr. Matthew Smith
  • Lee Remick
    Laura Manion
  • Murray Hamilton
    Alphonse Paquette
  • George C. Scott
    Claude Dancer
  • Ben Gazzara
    Lt. Frederick Manion
  • James Stewart
    Paul Biegler
  • Arthur O'Connell
    Parnell Emmett McCarthy
  • Howard McNear
    Dr. Dompierre
  • Don Ross
    Duane 'Duke' Miller
  • John Qualen
    Deputy Sheriff Sulo