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  • Mayerling
    Superintendent
    • Feb 2008
    • 2762

    #691
    And, despite putting down many John Ford films, I forgot "The Informer".

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    • Robert
      Commissioner
      • Feb 2008
      • 5163

      #692
      Another one is "The Quare Fellow."

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      • Mayerling
        Superintendent
        • Feb 2008
        • 2762

        #693
        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

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        • Robert
          Commissioner
          • Feb 2008
          • 5163

          #694
          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

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          • Steadmund Brand
            Sergeant
            • Jul 2010
            • 534

            #695
            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
            "The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago."- Lenny Bruce

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            • Robert
              Commissioner
              • Feb 2008
              • 5163

              #696
              The Untouchables
              The Crucible
              10 Rillington Place
              Was there a court scene in The Wrong Man? I should think there was.

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              • Mayerling
                Superintendent
                • Feb 2008
                • 2762

                #697
                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

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                • sdreid
                  Commissioner
                  • Feb 2008
                  • 4956

                  #698
                  Compulsion (1959) Based on Leopold and Loeb

                  Please Murder Me (1956) Where Raymond Burr plays a defense lawyer prior to Perry Mason

                  A Place in the Sun (1951) Both inspired by a true case and with Burr in the courtroom
                  This my opinion and to the best of my knowledge, that is, if I'm not joking.

                  Stan Reid

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                  • GUT
                    Commissioner
                    • Jan 2014
                    • 7841

                    #699
                    Run away Jury


                    Not a movie just a TV series dear old Horrace Rumpole.
                    G U T

                    There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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                    • Robert
                      Commissioner
                      • Feb 2008
                      • 5163

                      #700
                      Murder Most Foul.

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                      • Mayerling
                        Superintendent
                        • Feb 2008
                        • 2762

                        #701
                        01) The File on Thelma Jordan
                        02) The Story on Page One
                        03) The Tattered Dress
                        04) The Long Dark Hall
                        05) Odor in the Court (an hysterically funny Clark & McCullough short where as shyster lawyers - especially Bobby Clark - they wreck a divorce case)
                        06) Gentlemen Prefer Blonds (the hearing regarding ownership of the tiara)
                        07) Midnight (the concluding divorce proceeding)

                        Jeff

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                        • GUT
                          Commissioner
                          • Jan 2014
                          • 7841

                          #702
                          The Castle
                          G U T

                          There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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                          • DJA
                            *
                            • May 2015
                            • 4700

                            #703
                            Bitter Springs.

                            Michael Pate out of character as....an Australian.

                            A movie before it's time.

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                            • Robert
                              Commissioner
                              • Feb 2008
                              • 5163

                              #704
                              Beyond A Reasonable Doubt.

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                              • DJA
                                *
                                • May 2015
                                • 4700

                                #705
                                Glad you agree

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