Favorite Films (lists up to participating site members)

[Mayerling]

01) Trial (Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy)
02) Boomerang
03) A Few Good Men
04) The Purple Heart (Japanese War Crimes Trial of some of the Doolittle Raiders)

Jeff

[Robert]

The Untouchables
The Crucible
10 Rillington Place
Was there a court scene in The Wrong Man? I should think there was.

[Steadmund Brand]

Great new category!!!

you have named some great ones.. off the top of my head I'll add a few.. and probably a few more later after I think about it more

1- From the Hip- Pretty forgotten ( and I guess forgettable film) from 1987...however worth giving another look as John Hurt is FANTASTIC!!!
2-Judgment At Nuremberg- 1961
3- the Trial- (1962 version with Tony Perkins and Orson Wells)
4-The Verdict- 1982- may have been a bit overhyped but still a good film
5- The Devils- 1971- quite possibly Ken Russell’s masterpiece, certainly his most controversial
6- My Cousin Vinny- 1992- I just saw this film again after MANY years...still holds up and is quite funny
7-M- 1931- ok.. not a proper "court room" but powerful just the same!!
8- Lenny-1974- does take some "liberty" with the events but Hoffman is amazing as Lenny Bruce...
and
9- Duck Soup- 1933- The Marx Brothers at their anarchistic best.. and the greatest trial scene ever to turn into a lavish musical number!!!

Steadmund Brand

[Robert]

Anatomy Of A Murder
Mr Deeds Goes To Town
The Winslow Boy
Libel
The Caine Mutiny
A Matter Of Life And Death
Inherit The Wind
Kind Hearts And Coronets
Brothers In Law
A Man For All Seasons
My Learned Friend
Laughter In Paradise

[Mayerling]

Trial or Courtroom films

Recently Turner Classic Movie network was showing it's August "Summer Under the Stars" series, and did Marlene Dietrich. So I as watching several of her films, and saw "Witness For the Prosecution". I always enjoy it, despite knowing it's trick. The film got me to thinking of a new category.

Films involving trials (real or imaginary) and courtrooms:

1) Witness For the Prosecution (1958) [the later television version was quite inferior, despite Ralph Richardson and Diana Rigg being in the Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich roles]
2) Twelve Angry Men (1955)
3) The Paradine Case (1947) [despite being somewhat boring, it's Hitchcock's only trial movie]
4) The Lady From Shanghai (1947) [extended courtroom scenes with Orson Welles - defended by Everett Sloan - tried for killing Glen Anders]
5) They Don't Believe Me (1947) [the conclusion of this murder trial film with Robert Young is melodramatic, but quite unique]
6) Madeleine (1950)
7) Les Girls (1958) [A musical - music by Cole Porter - dealing with a libel suit, that dares asks us, "Rashomon" like, "What is truth?"]
8) Oscar Wilde (1960) - with Robert Morley
9) Oscar Wilde (1960) - with Peter Finch
10) Wilde (1997) - with Stephen Fry
11) The Life of Emile Zola (1937) [besides the Dreyfus and Esterhazi Court Martials there is Zola's trial for libel for his "J'Accuse" editorial]
12) Sergeant Rutledge (1961) [John Ford's court martial trial of Woody Strode for rape]
13) Young Mr. Lincoln (1940) [Ford's look at Abe Lincoln - Henry Fonda - as the defense attorney in the Armstrong Murder case of 1842]
14) Prisoner of Shark Island (1937) [Ford's look at the trial of Dr. Samuel Mudd - Warner Baxter - as one of the Lincoln Conspirators]
15) Conspirator (2011) [More recent, somewhat fuller, account of the 1865 Conspiracy trial, this time looking at the trial of Mrs. Surratt]
16) The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1939) [the Doctor's homicide trial at the end is given in a small concluding section, and makes one ponder who can be insane: the defendant, the jury, the law]

Jeff

[Robert]

Another one is "The Quare Fellow."

[Mayerling]

And, despite putting down many John Ford films, I forgot "The Informer".

[Mayerling]

The Field - Richard Harris
Rooney - John Gregson

There are also "Hear My Song" and Anjelica Huston's film, "The Dead" based on a James Joyce story.

[Robert]

The Field - Richard Harris
Rooney - John Gregson

[Rosella]

Irish films-- There's 'My Left Foot' of course, 1989, with Daniel Day-Lewis, and 'Angela's Ashes' 1999, which I found depressing. 'Circle of Friends,' with Minnie Driveris a bit of a chick flick but good, nevertheless. 2006's 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley' was good also.

[Mayerling]

I did not do a list of films set in Ireland, and specifically southern Ireland.

The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
The Fighting O'Flynn
Captain Boycott
Parnell (sorry, nobody seems to have done a better film on this figure)
The Plough and the Stars
Ryan's Daughter
Young Cassidy
The Quiet Man
Michael Collins
Beloved Enemy (I think this is the title - a fictionalized account of the legend that Collins and an English aristocrat met while he was negotiating the 1922 agreement in London, and it may have influenced him. Brian Ahern, Merle Oberon, and Jerome Cowan were in the film.)
The Rising of the Moon

Jeff

[Robert]

RIP Flash Harry. If you have any trouble getting past St Peter, take out a wad of notes and fix him.

[DJA]

Films set in Scotland in whole or part:

Jeff

We forgot "Cottage to Let", George Cole's first movie.

RIP Flash Harry,Arthur Daley,et al.....

[RockySullivan]

By the way i think you can buy smart money for like 3 bucks online. You should get it if your interested mayer. Cagney & Robinson together in 1931...how could that not be one of the greatest movies ever made?

[RockySullivan]

Mayer, you gotta see smart money...the best EGR movie after little caesar by far. nick the barber!