Anatomy of a Murder 1959 123movies

Watch: Anatomy of a Murder 1959 123movies, Full Movie Online – Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband’s story, the local paper has reported that the police surgeon can find no evidence that she has been raped. Manion is defended by Paul Biegler (James Stewart), a humble small-town lawyer and recently deposed district attorney. During the course of interviews, Biegler discovers that Manion is violently possessive and jealous, and also that his wife has a reputation for flirting with other men. Biegler realizes that the prosecution will try to make the court believe that Laura had been drunk and was picked up by the bartender and then her husband killed him and beat her up when he discovered they had been together. Manion pleads “not guilty” and Biegler, who knows that his case is weak, tries to find evidence that will save Manion..
Plot: 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. Featuring an outstanding supporting cast—with a young George C. Scott as a fiery prosecutor and the legendary attorney Joseph N. Welch as the judge—and an influential score by Duke Ellington, Anatomy of a Murder is an American movie landmark, nominated for seven Oscars, including best picture.
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	8.0/10 Votes: 66,899
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Reviews:

I am a trial attorney
I have tried more cases than I can remember – hundreds. This movie, more than any other, comes closet to real life. In criminal cases., the first and most important thing is – the phone call. That’s right, getting the case. Next comes the ‘talk.’ An attorney has to inform the client of the possible outcomes given the facts. In Anatomy of a Murder, the main facts are ‘undisputed’, that is, there is no doubt that the defendant killed the victim. Given that fact, there are only so many possible defenses – and so Jimmy Stewart, in one of the best performances of his career, relates those defenses to Ben Gazzara, in one of his best performances. Along the way, we are treated to George C. Scott’s premiere performance on screen – and it is is magnificent. Did I mention how incredible and sexy and vulnerable Lee Remick is? And the rest of the cast is also as good as it gets. And then there’s the Duke Ellington score (he won a Grammy) and the Wendell Mayes screenplay and the B/W cinematography by Sam Leavitt (The Defiant Ones (Oscar-winner), A Star is Born (1954)). Watch this movie to see how to make a crime drama. There is nothing as good as it is – nothing.

Centre court drama…
Thoroughly engrossing courtroom drama, famous as much for its adult subject matter and use of “dirty” language as anything else. It has some casting faults but equally there is some memorable playing, especially in the artifice-free courtroom finale played out over several tense minutes.

Let’s deal with the subject matter and language issues. It must have come as a shock to middle and upper-class Americans at the end of Eisenhower’s second term to be faced with a film which examines in some, if not gory detail, the possible rape of a, let’s be generous, flighty but pretty young wife of a Korean War vet who, after the alleged act, cold-bloodedly shoots down the so-called perpetrator out of revenge, jealousy or was it temporary madness. No stranger to controversy, Otto Preminger pushes the envelope all the way home here, making an epochal film on the cusp of the permissive 60’s, dragging America into the modern world. Hitchcock, another well-known agent-provocateur perhaps following the lead here, would take it further next year by showing Janet Leigh in her bra, taking part in a clandestine affair. As for the use of everyday vernacular in employing strong terminology for the time, with words like bitch, sperm, rape and of course panties, while they’re obviously inserted for shock value, they nevertheless ground the film in realism even if the last of them is probably over-used.

Some of the characterisations, I felt, worked, some didn’t. James Stewart sees it through gamely but I sense a mis-casting and why he has to be saddled with a clichéd drunken Dr Watson-type as his assistant, I don’t know. Better are the performances of a young George C Scott and Lee Remick as the slimy prosecutor and floozy housewife respectively, their climactic exchanges being absolutely electric, while there’s a performance of great subtlety and nuance by Joseph N Welch as the fair-minded judge.

So did the trailer park trash-couple get away with it? Preminger leaves that open and bravely eschews the use of flashback to give us no easy answers. The film’s at its best in the court scenes, less so in its depiction of small-town Americana but I was certainly gripped by the last 45 minutes in particular and will give it more than the benefit of the doubt in that regard.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 41 min (161 min), 2 hr 21 min (141 min) (cut) (UK)
Budget 2000000
Revenue 8000000
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Mystery
Director Otto Preminger
Writer Wendell Mayes, John D. Voelker
Actors James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 7 Oscars. 12 wins & 19 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Westrex Recording System), Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 4,400 m (1959) (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2021 remaster), Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm