ANATOMY OF A MURDER

Special Features: Intro by film historian Foster Hirsch on Oct. 17

Country lawyer Paul Beigler (James Stewart) takes time off from fishing to take on what seems an impossible case: defending bad-tempered Lieutenant Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara) for murdering the bartender who allegedly raped his wife (Lee Remick). And Manion has 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 and Joseph N. Welch, the Army’s real-life lawyer during the McCarthy hearings, as the presiding judge; the film’s Grammy®-winning composer, Duke Ellington, cameos as a nightclub pianist. Filmed entirely on location in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, ANATOMY OF A MURDER has a powerful sense of place and lived-in realism. The film earned seven Academy Award® nominations; although he lost the Oscar®, Stewart was named Best Actor by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the Venice Film Festival. DIR/PROD Otto Preminger; SCR Wendell Mayes, from the novel by Robert Traver. U.S., 1959, b&w, 161 min. NOT RATED

Run Time: 161 Minutes

Opening Date: Saturday, October 17, 2026

Genre: Crime drama

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