Anatomy of a Murder

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Anatomy of a Murder

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Anatomy of a Murder

Release Date: July 01, 1959

Year    :   1959
Slogan    :   «No search of human emotions has ever probed so deeply, so truthfully as… Anatomy of a Murder.»
Genres    :   Crime, Drama, Mystery
Production Companies    :   Columbia Pictures
Director    :   Otto Preminger
Producers    :   Otto Preminger, Max Slater, Henry Weinberger
Writers    :   Wendell Mayes, John D. Voelker
RunTime    :   161 mins.
Budget    :   2000000
Revenue    :   8000000

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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