Monday 27 December 2021

Anatomy of a Murder (1959 Otto Preminger)

Great performances - Stewart, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden vs. Ben Gazzara, Lee Remick, George C Scott. At two and a half hours it's a shade too long, and in the end, we don't really know what happened, not even that she was raped, or that her husband didn't beat her up. With Kathryn Grant, Murray Hamilton, Joseph N Welch.

Shame they couldn't have got a bit more Duke Ellington into the actual courtroom. Based on the novel by Robert Traver, adapted by Wendell Mayes (The Spirit of St Louis, Von Ryan's Express). Photographed by Sam Leavitt, edited by Louis Loeffler.

When he's not shouting at people, Stewart's in his wryly amused mode, like Harvey.

Titles by Saul Bass




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