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I watched this movie tonight...it was such an exceptional example of spectacular storytelling, and acting...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052561/
- Jimmy Stewart
- Lee Remick
- George C. Scott
- Ben Gazzara
- Eve Arden
- Orson Bean
*** FASCINATING FACTS ***
"The performer playing Judge Weaver, Joseph N. Welch, was not primarily known as an actor, and this was in fact his only depiction of a character in a feature film. Rather, he was a lawyer who became a household name as counsel for the U.S. Army during the anti-Communist investigation commonly known as the Army-McCarthy hearings. Welch was widely thought to have helped release Senator Joseph McCarthy's stranglehold over the country when he stood up to McCarthy and his aide Roy Cohn in the hearings, saying, "Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" This courageous stand has been seen as the turning point in finally defeating McCarthyism."
"'Anatomy of a Murder' is a faithful recreation of an actual 1952 murder case in which the defense attorney was John D. Voelker, who wrote the original novel under the pen name Robert Traver. The specifics are the same: an army lieutenant, Coleman Peterson, shot a barkeeper, Maurice Chenoweth, whom he accused of raping his beautiful and often flirtatious wife. The lieutenant pleads not guilty by reason of temporary insanity and a psychiatrist testifies that he suffered an "irresistible impulse." The jury acquits the lieutenant, and the couple then skips town in their mobile home without paying the legal bill, with Peterson leaving a note that he'd had an "irresistible impulse" to leave."
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