Anatomy of a murder [videorecording] / Otto Preminger presents ; Carlyle Productions ; screenplay, Wendell Mayes ; distributed by Columbia Pictures Corporation ; produced and directed by Otto Preminger.
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FilmPublisher number: 07019 | Columbia TriStar Home VideoLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai Series: Columbia classics (DVD videodiscs)Publication details: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2000.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 160 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0767827953
- 9780767827959
- Anatomy of a murder (Motion picture).
- Director of photography, Sam Leavitt ; editor, Louis R. Loeffler ; music, Duke Ellington.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars James Stewart as seat-of-the-pants Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler. Through the intervention of his alcoholic mentor, Parnell McCarthy (Arthur O'Connell), Biegler accepts the case of one Lt. Manion (Ben Gazzara), an unlovable lout who has murdered a local bar owner. Manion admits that he committed the crime, citing as his motive the victim's rape of the alluring Mrs. Manion (Lee Remick). Faced with the formidable opposition of big-city prosecutor Claude Dancer (George C. Scott), Biegler hopes to win freedom for his client by using as his defense the argument of "irresistible impulse." Also featured in the cast is Eve Arden as Biegler's sardonic secretary, Katherine Grant as the woman who inherits the dead man's business, and Joseph N. Welch -- who in real life was the defense attorney in the Army-McCarthy hearings -- as the ever-patient judge. The progressive-jazz musical score is provided by Duke Ellington, who also appears in a brief scene. Producer/director Otto Preminger once more pushed the envelope in Anatomy of a Murder by utilizing technical terminology referring to sexual penetration, which up until 1959 was a cinematic no-no. Contrary to popular belief, Preminger was not merely being faithful to the novel; most of the banter about "panties" and "semen," not to mention the 11-hour courtroom revelation, was invented for the film. Anatomy of a Murder was filmed on location in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on the novel: Anatomy of a murder / by Robert Traver.
Originally produced as motion picture in 1959.
Special features: photo montage; talent files (Preminger, Stewart, Remick, Gazzara, Arden, Scott); theatrical trailer; vintage advertising gallery.
Director of photography, Sam Leavitt ; editor, Louis R. Loeffler ; music, Duke Ellington.
James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott, Joseph N. Welch.
"Emotions flare as a jealous Army lieutenant pleads innocent to murdering the rapist of his seductive, beautiful wife"--Container.
Not rated by MPAA.
DVD, region 1; full screen; Dolby digital mono.
Closed-captioned.
In English or dubbed Spanish; optional subtitles in Chinese, English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish or Thai.