Anatomy of a Murder

Introduction and comments following Anatomy Of A Murder, 1959, from TCM's Eddie Muller and special guest Mercedes Ellington.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Anatomy Of A Murder, 1959.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Anatomy Of A Murder, 1959.

TCM's Dave Karger introduces Anatomy Of A Murder, 1959.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Anatomy Of A Murder, 1959.

Hot-shot prosecutor Dancer (George C. Scott) entering the courthouse as the judge (Joseph N. Welch) briefs the jury, the local DA (Brooks West) and his defense attorney opponent Biegler (James Stewart) taking his measure, in Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder, 1959.

One of a tiny number of movie appearances by jazz pioneer Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, who wrote the score, with sidemen including Paul Gonsalves on tenor, Cat Anderson on trumpet, lawyer Biegler (James Stewart) sitting in, before he finds and berates Laura (Lee Remick), wife of the soldier he’s defending on murder charges, because he killed the man who raped her, in Otto Preminger’s Anatomy Of A Murder, 1959.

Michigan attorney Biegler (James Stewart) has learned that saucy Laura (Lee Remick), a rape victim and the wife of his soldier client (Ben Gazzara), charged with killing her attacker, has passed a lie detector test, but he has further questions, in Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder, 1959.

Upper Michigan attorney Paul Biegler (James Stewart), just returned from an extended solo fishing trip, getting up to date with tippling pal McCarthy (Arthur O'Connell), then taking an unexpected call from Laura Manion (Lee Remick), early in Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder, 1959.

Famous scene, first meeting between former Michigan small-town prosecutor turned lackadaisical defense attorney Paul Biegler (James Stewart) and Lieutenant Manion (Ben Gazzara), jailed for killing his wife's assailant, early in Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder, 1959.

Small-town lawyer James Stewart gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife in Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder (1959).