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Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

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Date: 12 Jun 2011 12:53:05
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
DVD9 untouched (VIDEO_TS) | PAL 16:9 (720 x 576) | AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps (each track) | 02:34:01 | 7,02 Gb
Lang (5 audio tracks): English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
DVDRip | AVI | 704 x 384 | XviD @ 1611 Kbps | English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | 02:34:01 | 2,06 Gb
Subtitles (Same on DVD and on DVDRip (idx/sub)): English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Arabic, Czech, Portuguese, Finnish, Greek, Bulgarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish (Total 21)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery | Nominated for 7 Oscars + 7 wins | USA

Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband's story, the police surgeon can find no evidence that she has been raped. Manion is defended by Paul Biegler (James Stewart), a rather humble small-town lawyer. During the course of interviews, Biegler discovers that Manion is violently possessive and jealous, and also that his wife has a reputation for giving her favors to other men. Biegler realizes that the prosecution will try to make the court believe that Laura was the lover of the bartender and than Manion killed him and beat her up when he discovered them together. Manion pleads "not guilty" and Biegler, who knows that his case is weak, sets his assistants to try to find a witness who will save Manion.

Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars James Stewart as seat-of-the-pants Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler. Through the intervention of his alcoholic mentor, Parnell McCarthy (Arthur O'Connell), Biegler accepts the case of one Lt. Manion (Ben Gazzara), an unlovable lout who has murdered a local bar owner. Manion admits that he committed the crime, citing as his motive the victim's rape of the alluring Mrs. Manion (Lee Remick). Faced with the formidable opposition of big-city prosecutor Claude Dancer (George C. Scott), Biegler hopes to win freedom for his client by using as his defense the argument of "irresistible impulse." Also featured in the cast is Eve Arden as Biegler's sardonic secretary, Katherine Grant as the woman who inherits the dead man's business, and Joseph N. Welch – who in real life was the defense attorney in the Army-McCarthy hearings – as the ever-patient judge. The progressive-jazz musical score is provided by Duke Ellington, who also appears in a brief scene. Producer/director Otto Preminger once more pushed the envelope in Anatomy of a Murder by utilizing technical terminology referring to sexual penetration, which up until 1959 was a cinematic no-no. Contrary to popular belief, Preminger was not merely being faithful to the novel; most of the banter about "panties" and "semen," not to mention the 11-hour courtroom revelation, was invented for the film. Anatomy of a Murder was filmed on location in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Hal Erickson, Rovi
IMDB 8,1/10 (18,429 votes) - Top 250 #247

NB! First four screenshots are from DVD; next four - from DVDRip (screenshots are enlargeable).

Like the court proceedings at its core, Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder moves at a deliberate pace, unwinding its 161 minutes in long, fluid takes. The subject matter (rape and the insanity defense) was controversial in the 1950s, as was Preminger's approach, which was bluntly direct. The film maintains a cool objectivity as it explores both the psychosexual issues of the central characters and the complex legal issues confronted by lawyer Paul Biegler and his client Lieutenant Manion. It raises prickly and complex questions about legal ethics, while challenging the audience to decide for itself the tricky issues of justice and truth. Sam Leavitt's black-and-white cinematography contrasts with the various shades of gray in the moral dilemmas of the characters. Justice appears to be an afterthought in this case in which procedure and self-interest, rather than a pursuit of the truth, control the process. There are no clear-cut good guys and bad guys, and the film's resolution has a willfully ironic edge. An excellent soundtrack by Duke Ellington and superior casting invigorate what could have become a series of methodical courtroom scenes. James Stewart brings a natural integrity to his flawed character, while George C. Scott's gravelly voice and rumpled energy enliven his cinematic debut. Standouts also include Lee Remick, playing somewhat against type as the flirtatious "victim," and Ben Gazzara, who eases effortlessly into his cynical role. In an ingenious piece of casting, noted Boston lawyer Joseph N. Welch, famed for his evisceration of Joseph McCarthy ("Have you no shame, senator?"), is cast as the judge. Nominated for eight Academy Awards (though winning none), Anatomy of a Murder was an envelope-pusher in its day, forcing open some of the tightly locked censorial shutters in prudish 1950s Hollywood.
Dan Jardine, Rovi
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

After watching an endless succession of courtroom melodramas that have more or less transgressed the bounds of human reason and the rules of advocacy, it is cheering and fascinating to see one that hews magnificently to a line of dramatic but reasonable behavior and proper procedure in a court. Such a one is "Anatomy of a Murder," which opened at the Criterion and the Plaza yesterday. It is the best courtroom melodrama this old judge has ever seen.

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Perhaps "melodrama" is the wrong word. Perhaps it would be better to say this is really a potent character study of a group of people involved in a criminal trial. For Otto Preminger, who produced and directed it from a script adapted by Wendell Mayes from the highly successful novel of Robert Traver (Judge John D. Voelker), has got as much fine illumination of the major personalities in this case as he has got strong suspense and pounding drama in the unfolding details of the trial.

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Following the line of "Mr. Traver," even to the point of shooting all his film in the actual up-country of Michigan where the fictional murder case is set, Mr. Preminger has fittingly developed the sharp illusion of a realistic look, uninhibited and uncensored, at everything a small-town lawyer does to prepare and make a courtroom presentation of the defense of an accused murderer.

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Neatly and with much local color, he finds the known facts in the case—that a moody young Army lieutenant has shot and killed a man, a tavern owner, whom the wife of the lieutenant says has raped her outside a trailer camp. Frankly, he drops the suspicion that the wife may be a bit on the shady side, that she may have been lying to the lieutenant and that he may be a mean, unstable type. And then, with this tempting information, he takes the case into court and achieves the succeeding revelation of character and conduct in that stringent atmosphere.

Actually, the major conflict and dramatic fascination from this point on is the battle of legal wits and personalities that is waged between the defense attorney and those of the prosecution, under the watchful eye of a shrewd, sardonic old judge. It is a beautifully drawn and maneuvered battle, full of neat little triumphs on each side, leading to a most exciting climax and clear exposures of the principal characters.

Most brilliantly revealed is the character of the lawyer for the defense, a part that is played by James Stewart in one of the finest performances of his career. Slowly and subtly, he presents us a warm, clever, adroit and complex man—and, most particularly, a portrait of a trial lawyer in action that will be difficult for anyone to surpass.

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

On the bench as the judge, Joseph N. Welch of Boston, the lawyer who distinguished himself in the Army-McCarthy hearings, does an unbelievably professional job. He is delightful and ever so convincing. Mr. Preminger scored a coup in getting him. George C. Scott as a prosecuting attorney makes the courtroom battle a deadly duel by offering himself as a skillful and unrelenting antagonist, and Brooks West as his standard-brand associate adds to the personal variety. Lee Remick treads beautifully a fine line between never-resolved uncertainties as the wife of the lieutenant and Ben Gazzara makes the latter role one of the haughty and haunting mysteries and ironies of the film.

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Arthur O'Connell as a sozzled attorney and friend of Mr. Stewart, Eve Arden as the latter's secretary, Murray Hamilton as a witness for the state and Kathryn Grant as a friend of the slain man turn in excellent jobs. Outside of the fact that this drama gets a little tiring in spots—in its two hours and forty minutes, most of which is spent in court—it is well nigh flawless as a picture of an American court at work, of small-town American characters and of the average sordidness of crime.
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

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