Synopsis :
In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, small-town lawyer Paul Biegler (James Stewart), a former prosecuting attorney who lost his re-election bid, takes the case of loutish US Army Lieutenant Frederic Manion (Ben Gazzara), charged with first degree murder for shooting a bartender who allegedly raped Manion's flirtatious wife, Laura (Lee Remick). Matched against a high-powered big city prosecutor (George C. Scott) sent by the Governor to help out the local D.A. (Brooks West), Biegler and his alcoholic colleague Parnell McCarthy (Arthur O'Connell) and sardonic secretary Maida Rutledge (Eve Arden) try to win Manion's freedom with a defense of irresistible impulse - a claimed part of an insanity defense. Biegler's folksy speech and laid-back demeanor hide a sharp legal mind and a propensity for courtroom theatrics that have the visiting judge (real life lawyer Joseph N. Welch, of Army-McCarthy hearings fame, in his only film role—he took it only after Preminger agreed to let Welch's wife be on the jury)[4] busy keeping things under control.
The original murder that inspired the book and mover did actually occur at the Lumberjack Tavern in Big Bay, which is still in existence today, and where you can still see the murder scene body outline, although this may be a restored and not original outline.
Starring :
James Stewart ... Paul Biegler
Lee Remick ... Laura Manion
Ben Gazzara ... Lt. Frederick Manion
Arthur O'Connell ... Parnell Emmett McCarthy
Eve Arden ... Maida Rutledge
Murray Hamilton ... Alphonse Paquette
Brooks West ... Dist. Atty. Mitch Lodwick
Ken Lynch ... Det. Sgt. James Durgo
John Qualen ... Deputy Sheriff Sulo
Howard McNear ... Dr. Dompierre
Alexander Campbell ... Dr. W. Gregory Harcourt
Director :
Otto Preminger
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