Outstanding courtroom drama directed by Otto Preminger in 1959. Aw shucks country lawyer burns with intensity when the case is on the line. Stewart has never been better.
Ambiguous client (guilty?) with his slutty wife (was she raped?), drunken assistant, Eve Arden as his long-suffering secretary, Joseph Welch as the avuncular judge and George C. Scott as the heavy-hitter from Lansing. Everything came together in a film that was almost three hours long and held me without pause the entire way.
Great stuff.
8
No comments:
Post a Comment