Jazz In Film: Anatomy Of A Murder

Anatomy Of A Murder - (Original Trailer)

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).

Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) -- (Movie Clip) I've Seen Him In Action

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.

Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Old Brown Books

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.

Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Unwritten Law

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.

Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Not Once Not Ever

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.

Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) -- (Movie Clip) An Attractive Jiggle

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.