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Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 film starring James Stewart, George C. Scott, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, Orson Bean, and Murray Hamilton. Stewart plays a small-town lawyer by the name of Paul Biegler, who is the defense attorney for Lieutenant Frederic Manion (Gazzara). Lt. Manion is charged with first degree murder for shooting a barkeeper, Barney Quill, because Quill allegedly raped Lt. Manion’s wife, Laura (Remick). However, Lt. Manion is eventually acquitted under the defense of irresistible impulse. The bulk of the film's plot revolves around the drama as it unfolds in court
The film highlights several of the law’s shortcomings that stem from the fallibility of the law’s human components. These components – the counsel for defense and prosecution, the defendant and his family, and the jury – have different positions on what is right or wrong, and varying regard for the values of integrity and justice. This variation allows the law to be manipulated in many ways. The most controversial legal issue in this film is the unethical witness coaching indulged in by Biegler as he spells out for Lt. Manion the only plausible defense Lt. Manion has – the insanity defense. Witness coaching is seen as the subornation of perjury to a lesser extent, and prompts the defendant to conceal the truth and manipulate his story in order to obtain the best possible verdict.
The movie, based on the 1952 Big Bay Lumberjack Tavern murder trial in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, was adapted by Wendell Mayes from the novel by Robert Traver (pen name of John D. Voelker, a Michigan Supreme Court judge from 1957-1959). It was filmed in Big Bay (where the real murder had taken place), Marquette, Ishpeming, and Michigamee, Michigan. Some scenes were actually filmed in the Thunder Bay Inn in Big Bay, Michigan, which is still in existence and one block away from the Lumberjack Tavern, where the actual murder took place,.
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