Anatomy of a Murder
No search of human emotions has ever probed so deeply, so truthfully as… Anatomy of a Murder.
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Timing:
2:41 (161 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Budget
$2 000 000
Revenue
$8 000 000
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Operator
Sam Leavitt
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The bartender at the establishment where Parnell drinks is named Toivo, and the guard in the prison is named Sulo. Both names are Finnish. The film is set in Michigan, where a large Finnish diaspora was formed and now resides as a result of mass migration from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century.
- James Stewart's (1908-1997) father disliked the film so much that he spent money on an advertisement in the local newspaper strongly advising people not to see it.
- The film faithfully and meticulously recreates the 1952 court case handled by lawyer John D. Volcker (1903-1991), who later wrote a novel of the same name under the pseudonym Robert Traver. All the details are preserved: Lieutenant Coleman Peterson shot bartender Maurice Chenoweth, accusing him of raping his beautiful, but often frivolous wife. The lieutenant claimed he was temporarily insane at the time of the murder, and the psychiatrist called it an "irresistible impulse." Peterson’s jury acquitted him, after which he immediately left with his wife, without paying court costs, but leaving a note stating that he was experiencing an "irresistible impulse" to leave.
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