ANATOMY OF A MURDER
Country lawyer James Stewart takes time out from fishing to take on what seems an impossible case: defending bad-tempered Lt. Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara) for murdering the bartender who allegedly raped his wife (Lee Remick). And Manion’s already confessed to the crime! Otto Preminger's tour-de-force courtroom drama also stars George C. Scott as a young hotshot prosecutor, Eve Arden as Stewart's wise-cracking secretary, real-life Army–McCarthy hearing lawyer Joseph N. Welch as the presiding judge, and the film's Grammy®-winning composer, Duke Ellington, cameos as a nightclub pianist. Filmed entirely on location in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the film has a powerful sense of place and lived-in realism. The film earned seven Oscar® nominations and Stewart was named Best Actor by both the New York Film Critics and the Venice Film Festival. DIR/PROD Otto Preminger; SCR Wendell Mayes, from on the novel by John D. Voelker. U.S., 1960, b&w, 160 min. NOT RATED
Run Time: 160 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, April 26, 2024
Genre: Drama