Directed by:
Otto PremingerScreenplay:
Wendell MayesCinematography:
Sam LeavittComposer:
Duke EllingtonCast:
James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott, Orson Bean, Russ Brown, Murray Hamilton, Duke Ellington (more)VOD (4)
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A virtuoso James Stewart plays a small-town Michigan lawyer who takes on a difficult case: the defense of a young army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara) accused of murdering a local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife (Lee Remick). This gripping envelope-pusher, the most popular film by Hollywood provocateur Otto Preminger, was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex - but more than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
James Stewart
USA
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Rear Window (1954)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Lee Remick
USA
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Ben Gazzara
USA
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Arthur O'Connell
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Eve Arden
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Kathryn Grant
USA
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George C. Scott
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Orson Bean
USA
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Russ Brown
USA
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Murray Hamilton
USA
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Duke Ellington
USA
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John Qualen
Canada
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Joseph N. Welch
USA
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Ken Lynch
USA
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Howard McNear
USA
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Jimmy Conlin
USA
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Alexander Campbell
USA
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Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
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James Waters
USA
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Don Ross
USA
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Ned Wever
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