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Vol. 3, Number 4 (1983) reprinted by permission of the author Lawyers and the Law A Filmography Paul J. Mastrangelo* the New York Law School Library. It is a list of commercial, narra- tive films concerning lawyers and the law. The criteria used in se- lection were that the films be in sound, spoken in the English lan- guage, and either feature a lawyer or center their action around a courtroom. Since there are no legal filmographies in existence and virtually no subject indexes to theatrical films, various film resources have been laboriously searched title by title. Each entry provides the title, and alternate titles, if any; the cast, the director (designated by the letter "d"); the writer or writers (designated by the letter "s"); the literary source, if any, the country of origin (if none is given; the film is an American production); the production company; the length of the film in minutes, the film stock used (i.e. black and white or color); and the date of release. A very brief annotation is also provided, and a bibliography is appended. Due to the difficulty in unearthing appropriate titles, it is probable that some candidates for inclusion have been overlooked. I hope that this situation will be corrected in future revisions. There is also the possibility of expanding the scope of any new edition to include films made for television. No attempt has been made to indicate the availability of the films listed. However, a rough estimate would be that not more than one quarter are currently available for sale or rental. Adam's Rib—In this sophisticated comedy, a district attorney and his lawyer wife find themselves on opposite sides of a court case in which a woman is being tried for the attempted murder of her philandering husband. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell, David Wayne, Jean Hagen. d. George Cukor s. Garson Kanin, Ruth Gordon MGM 101 Min. b/w 1949 All That Money Can Buy—Drama of a man who has sold his soul to the devil and, in a breach of contract trial before a jury of twelve notorious rogues, is freed due to the eloquence of Daniel Webster. Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon, Gene Lockhart, John Qualen, H. B. Warner, James Craig, Anne Shirley, Frank Conlan, Lindy Wade, George Cleveland. d. William Dieterle s. Dan Totheroh, Stephen Vincent Benet—based on the story The Devil and Daniel Webster by Benet RKO 109 Min. b/w 1941 An American Tragedy—A boy who loves a rich society girl is on trial for the murder of a previous girl friend. Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton, Claire McDowell. d. Josef von Sternberg s. Josef von Sternberg—based on the novel by Thedore Dreiser Paramount 95 min. b/w 1931 Anatomy of a Murder—A Michigan lawyer defends an Army Lieu- tenant on a murder charge after the man's wife has been attacked. James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell, Eve Arden, George C. Scott, Joseph N. Welch d. Otto Preminger s. Wendell Mays—based on the novel by Robert Traver (Mich. Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker). Columbia 160 min. b/w/ 1959 And Justice For All—A black comedy of an idealistic lawyer's bitter awakening and the shortcomings of our judicial system. Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Lee Strasberg, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Sam Levene. d. Norman Jewison s. Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson Columbia 120 min. color 1979 Attorney for the Defense—A district attorney resigns his office to defend those accused of crimes and ends up defending himself in a murder trial. Edmund Lowe, Evelyn Brent, Constance Cummings, Donald Dilloway, Dorothy Peterson, Bradley Page, Nat Pendleton, Dwight Frye. d. Irving Cummings s. Jo Swerling—based on the story by J. K. McGuinness. Columbia 68 min. b/w 1932 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer—Playboy artist becomes in volved with a teen-aged girl and is ordered by a judge (the girl's older sister) to help rid the girl of her infatuation. Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Col- lins, Harry Davenport, Johnny Sands, Don Beddoe, Lillian Ran- dolph, Veda Ann Borg, Dan Tobin. d. Irving Reis s. Sidney Sheldon RKO 95 min. b/w 1947 The Bellamy Trial—Drama of a murder trial involving a love tri- angle. Begun as a silent film, with dialogue added in the culminat- ing trial sequences. Beatrice Joy, Betty Bronson, Edward Nugent, George Barraud, Margaret Livingston, Kenneth Thomson, Margaret Seddon, Charles B. Middleton, Charles Hill Mailes. d. Monta Bell s. Monta Bell—based on a story by Frances Noyes Hart. MGM 89 min. b/w 1929 Black Legion—Drama of vigilantism and bigotry in the mid-west. A legion member turns state's evidence at the murder trial of fellow members. Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheri- dan, Robert Barrat, Helen Flint, Joseph Sawyer, Addison Rich- ards, Eddie Acuff. d. Archie Mayo s. Abem Finkel, William Wister Haines—based on a story by Robert Lord. Warner Bros. 83 min. b/w 1937 Breaker Morant—A military court-martial set in South Africa at the end of the Boer War. Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles Tingwell, Frank Wilson. d. Bruce Beresford s. Bruce Beresford, Johnathan Hardy, David Stevens—based on the play by Kenneth Ross. Aust: South Australian Film Corp. 107 min. color 1980 The Caine Mutiny—Tensions among the crew of a Navy destroyer minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II, a mutiny against an incompetent captain, and the naval court-martial which follows. Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, Robert Francis, E. G. Marshall. d. Edward Dmytryk s. Stanley Roberts—based on the novel by Herman Wouk. Columbia 125 min. color 1954 Can-Can—Musical involving a Parisian cafe where the outlawed dance is performed, the lawyer friend of the proprietress and two judges. Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Jean DelVal. d. Walter Lang s. Dorothy Kingsley, Charles Lederer—based on the Broadway musical comedy of 1953 by Abe Burrows. 20th Century-Fox 131 min. color 1960 The Case for the Crown—Contractor makes partner's "suicide" re-. semble murder to save daughter from disgrace. Miles Mander, Meriel Forbes, Whitmore Humphries, Lawrence Anderson, David Horne, Gordon McLeod, John Turnbull. d. George A. Cooper s. Sherard Powell—based on the story An Error of Judgement by Anthony Gittins. GB: Paramount British 70 min. b/w 1934 The Case of Gabriel Perry—A wife learns that her J. P. husband has killed a local woman. Henry Oscar, Olga Lindo, Margaret Lockwood, Franklin Dyall, Raymond Lovely, John Wood, Martha Hunt, Rodney Ackland. d. Albert de Courville s. L. DuGarde Peach—based on the play Wild Justice by James Dale. GB: British Lion 78 min. b/w 1935 The Case of the Black Cat—This film (and the five following) is based on a series of mystery novels by Erle Stanley Gardner. Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan, Craig Reynolds, Car- lyle Moore, Jr., Gordon Elliott, Nedda Harrigan, Gary Owen, Harry Davenport. d. William McGann s. F. Hugh Herbert Warner Bros. 66 min. b/w 1936 The Case of the Curious Bride—see above Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, Claire Dodd, Allen Jenkins, Philip Reed, Barton MacLane, Winifred Shaw, Warren Hymer, Errol Flynn. d. Michael Curtiz s. Tom Reed—additional dialogue by Brown Holmes. Warner Bros. 68 min. b/w 1935 The Case of the Howling Dog—see above Warren William, Mary Astor, Helen Trenholme, Allen Jenkins, Grant Mitchell, Dorothy Tree, Helen Lowell, Gordon Westcott, Harry Tyler. d. Allan Crosland s. Ben Markson Warner Bros. 75 min. b/w 1934 The Case of the Lucky Legs—see above Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins, Barton MacLane, Peggy Shannon, Porter Hall, Anna Kerry, Craig Reynolds. d. Archie Mayo s. Brown Holmes, Ben Markson—adapted by Jerry Chodorov. Warner Bros. 76 min. b/w 1935 The Case of the Stuttering Bishop—see above Donald Woods, Ann Dvorak, Anne Nagel, Linda Perry, Craig Reynolds, Gordon Oliver, Joseph Crehan, Helen MacKellar. d. William Clemens s. Don Ryan, Kenneth Garnet Warner Bros. 70 min. b/w 1937 The Case of the Velvet Claws—see above Warren William, Claire Dodd, Winifred Shaw, Gordon Elliott, Joseph King, Addison Richards, Eddie Acuff, Olin Howland, Kenneth Harlan, Dick Purcell, Clara Blandick. d. William Clemens s. Tom Reed Warner Bros. 60 min. b/w 1936 Cass Timberlane—Story of a respectable midwestern judge who marries a beautiful, immature bride and has trouble keeping pace with her youth. Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Taylor, Mary Astor, Tom Drake, Albert Dekker, Margaret Lindsay, Josephine Hutchinson, Rose Hobart, Mona Barrie, Selena Royle, Cameron Mitchell, John Litel, Howard Freeman. d. George Seaton s. Donald Ogden Stewart—based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis. MGM 119 min. b/w 1947 Compulsion—Drama based on the trial of Leopold and Loeb, who murdered young Bobby Franks in Chicago in 1924, and were de- fended by Clarence Darrow. Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E. G. Marshall, Martin Milner. s. Richard Murphy—based on the novel and play by Meyer Levin. 20th Century-Fox 103 min . b/w 1959 Conduct Unbecoming—Drama set in Victorian India concerning the kangaroo tribunal of a junior officer in the British army accused of assulting the flirtatious widow of his regiment's revered hero. Michael York, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Howard, Stacy Keach, Susannah York, Christopher Plummer, James Faulkner, James Donald, Michael Culver, Persis Khambatta. d. Michael Anderson s. Robert Enders—based on the play by Barry England. British Lion/Allied Artists 107 min. color 1975 Counsellor-at-Law—A brilliant Jewish lawyer, up from the ghetto, faces ruin when an unethical deed in his distant past comes to the knowledge of an enemy. John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Onslow Stevens, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas, Thelma Todd. d. William Wyler s. Elmer Rice—based on his play. Universal 78 min. b/w 1933 Court Martial—Literate drama of a British army officer and gentle- man before a military court on a charge of fraudulently misappro- priating £125 of his battalion's funds. David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton, Allan Cuth- bertson, Victor Maddern, Raymond Francis, Geoffrey Keen, Newton Blick, Laurence Naismith. d. Anthony Asquith s. John Hunter—based on the play Carrington, V. C. by Dorothy and Campbell Christie. GB: Romulus Films 100 min. b/w 1955 Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell—Gen. Mitchell's court-martial in 1925 for defiance of military brass in charging the army and navy with incompetence, criminal negligence, and almost treasonable administration. Gary Cooper, Rod Steiger, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Elizabeth Montgomery, Fred Clark, James Daly, Peter Graves, Darren McGavin. d. Otto Preminger s. Milton Sperling, Emmet Lavery Warner Bros. 100 min. color 1955 The Courtmartial of Major Kelley—The Army has to prove that an officer was incompetent and a coward during battle. Laurence Payne, Susan Stephen, Ralph Michael, Richard Caldi- cott, Basil Dignam, Austin Trevor, Simon Lack, Jack McNaugh- ton. d. Ernest Morris s. Brian Clemens GB: Danziger 69 min. b/w 1963 Crime Without Passion—Drama of a lawyer who gets involved in crime and tries to clear himself by criminal methods. Claude Rains, Margo, Whitney Bourne, Stanley Ridges, Fuller Mellish. d. Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur s. Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur—from their story, Caballero of the Law. Paramount 80 min. b/w 1934 Criminal Code—Drama of a conscientious district attorney, who after being side-tracked in his gubernatorial ambitions, is appointed warden of a prison to which, as a prosecutor, he has been respon- sible for sending many of the inmates. Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings, Mary Doran, DeWitt Jannings, John Sheehan, Boris Karloff, Otto Hoffman, Clark Marshall. d. Howard Hawks s. Based on the play by Martin Flavin Columbia 98 min. b/w 1931 Criminal Court—Drama of a criminal attorney who has never lost a case, but must fight a band of gangsters who try to corrupt a city government and put him "on the spot" simultaneously. Tom Conway, Martha O'Driscoll, June Clayworth, Robert Arm- strong, Addison Richards, Pat Gleason, Steve Brodie, Robert Warwick. d. Robert Wise s. Lawrence Kimble—based on a story by Earl Felton. RKO 59 min. b/w 1946 Criminal Lawyer—The rise of a gangland mouthpiece to district at- torney, ending with the D.A. unburdening his conscience and re- tiring to a private life of penance. Lee Tracy, Margot Grahame, Eduardo Ciannelli, Erik Rhodes, Betty Lawford, Frank M. Thomas, Wilfred Lucas, William Stack. d. Christy Cabanne s. G. V. Atwater, Thomas Lennon—from a story by Louis Stevens. RKO 72 min. b/w 1937 Criminal Lawyer—Drama of a spectacularly unscrupulous attorney who craves a judgeship. Pat O'Brien, Jane Wyatt, Mike Mazurki, Robert Shayne, Jerome Cowan, Carl Benton Reid. d. Seymour Friedman s. Harold R. Greene Columbia 73 min. b/w 1951 Evelyn Prentice—Drama of philandering criminal lawyer who de- fends his wife, on trial for the murder of her blackmailer-lover. Myrna Loy, William Powell, Una Merkel, Harvey Stevens, Isa- bel Jewell, Rosalind Russell, Henry Wadsworth, Edward Brophy, Cora Sue Collins, Jessie Ralph. d. William K. Howard s. Lenore Coffee—based on the novel by W. E. Woodward. MGM 80 min. b/w 1934 First Monday in October—Comedy-drama about the first woman on the Supreme Court and her conflict with a crotchety long-term liberal member of the court. Walter Matthau, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes, Jan Sterling, James Stephens, Joshua Bryant. d. Ronald Neame s. Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee—from their play. Paramount 95 min. color 1981 For the Defense—Drama built around the personality and profes- sional activities of a counsel for the underworld. William Powell, Kay Francis, Scott Kolk William B. Davidson, John Elliott, Thomas Jackson, Harry Walker, James Finlayson, Charles West, Charles Sullivan. d. John Cromwell s. Oliver H. P. Garrett Paramount 63 min. b/w 1930 A Free Soul—Drama of an alcoholic lawyer who defends his daugh- ter's fiance, accused of killing the sadistic gangster with whom she was having an affair. After cross-examining his daughter and addressing a dramatic speech to the jury, the old lawyer dies in court. Norma Shearer, Lionel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Leslie Howard, James Gleason, Frank Sheridan, George Irving. d. Clarence Brown s. John Meehan—based on the book and magazine serial by Adela Rogers St. Johns, and the play by Willard Mack, about St. Johns' father. MGM 91 min. b/w 1931 Guilty?—Melodrama involving a senator sentenced to prison for bribery on circumstantial evidence, the judge who convicted him, and a suicide made to appear a murder. Virginia Valli, John Holland, John St. Polis, Lydia Knott, Erville Alderson, Richard Carlyle, Clarence Muse, Eddie Clayton. d. George B. Seitz s. Dorothy Howell—based on her story entitled The Black Sheep. Columbia 75 min. b/w 1930 Guilty?—An old-fashioned mystery with a courtroom climax. An ex-resistance heroine is on trial in the Old Bailey for murder. John Justin, Barbara Laage, Donald Wolfit, Stephen Murray, Norman Wooland, Frank Villard, Sydney Tafler, Betty Stock- field. d. Edmond Greville s. Maurice J. Wilson—based on the novel Death Has Deep Roots by Michael Gilbert. GB: Grand National /Gibraltar 93 min. b/w 1956 Guilty Hands—Melodrama involving a man who murders his daugh- ter's lover but whose attempt to make it appear a suicide back- fires. Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis, Madge Evans, C. Aubrey Smith, William Bakewell, Alan Mowbray, Polly Moran. d. W. S. Van Dyke s. Bayard Veiller MGM 71 min. b/w 1931 Guilty of Treason—Gutter press version of the trial of the Hungar- ian Cardinal Mindzenty by the Russians. Charles Bickford, Paul Kelly, Bonita Granville, Richard Derr, Barry Kroeger, Elisabeth Risdon. d. Felix Feist s. Emmet Lavery—based on the book As We See Russia by The Overseas Press Club. Freedom Productions 97 min. b/w 1950 Handle With Care—Sentimental comedy about an assistant district attorney and a houseful of children and pets. James Dunn, Boots Mallory, El Brendel, Buster Phelps, George Ernest, Patrick Hartigan, Frank O'Connor. d. David Butler s. Frank Craven, Sam Mintz—based on the story by David Butler. Fox 73 min. b/w 1932 Handle With Care—Drama of a group of law students who in staging a mock trial as a classroom exercise decide to investigate the local municipal government rather than choosing a make-believe situation. Dean Jones, Joan O'Brien, Royal Dano, Thomas Mitchell, John Smith, Walter Abel, Anne Seymour, Ted de Corsia. d. David Friedkin s. David Friedkin, Morton Fine—from a story by Samuel and Edith Grafton. MGM 82 min. b/w 1958 I Accuse!—Drama dealing with the 1894 trial of Alfred Dreyfus, concentrating on the accused rather than Emile Zola. Jose Ferrer, Viveca Lindfors, Anton Walbrook, Leo Genn, Emlyn Williams, David Farrar, Donald Wolfit, Herbert Lom, Harry Andrews, Felix Aylmer, George Coulouris, Peter Illing Carl Jaffe. d. Jose Ferrer s. Gore Vidal MGM 99 min. b/w 1957 I Want to Live—Drama concerning the California case of convicted murderess Barbara Graham. It makes a strong plea against capital punishment. Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent, Theodore Bikel, Bartlett Robinson. d. Robert Wise s. Nelson Gidding, Don Mankiewicz—based on newspaper ar- ticles by Ed Montgomery and the letters of Barbara Graham. United Artists 120 min. b/w 1958 Illegal—A second remake of The Mouthpiece, q.v. Edward G. Robinson, Nina Foch, Albert Dekker, Hugh Mar- lowe, Jayne Mansfield, Howard St. John, Ellen Corby. d. Lewis Allen s. W. R. Burnett, James R Webb—from the story by Frank J. Collins. Warner Bros. 88 min. b/w 1955 Inadmissible Evidence—Drama of a frustrated forty year old solici- tor on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Nicol Williamson, Eleanor Fazan, Jill Bennett, Peter Sallis, Eileen Atkins, Isobel Dean, David Valla, Gillian Hills, Ingrid Brett. d. Anthony Page s. John Osborne—based on his play. GB: Paramount /Woodfall 96 min. b/w 1968 Inherit the Wind—Drama based on the famous Scopes monkey trial in Tennessee, concerning the teaching of evolution. Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Florence Eldridge, Dick York, Harry Morgan. d. Stanley Kramer s. Nathan E. Douglas, Harold Jacob Smith—based on the play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. United Artists 127 min. b/w 1960 Joan of Arc—The story of the French martyr, the second half of which deals with her trial for heresy. Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan. J. Carrol Naish, Ward Bond, Sheppard Strudwick, Gene Lockhart, John Emery, George Coulouris, Roman Bohnen, Cecil Kellaway, Richard Derr, Ray Teal, Leif Erickson, Richard Ney, Robert Barrat, Selena Royle. d. Victor Fleming s. Maxwell Anderson, Andrew Solt—based on the Maxwell An- derson play, Joan of Lorraine. RKO 145 min. color 1948 Judge Jefferson Remembers—A British Criminal Court judge recalls three crimes. d. Ronald Haines GB: British Foundation (Columbia) 16 min. b/w 1945 Judge Priest—A character comedy of native American humor cen- tering around a homespun Kentucky judge. Will Rogers, Tom Brown, Anita Louise, Henry B. Walthall, David Landau, Rochelle Hudson, Roger Imhof, Frank Melton, Charles Grapewin, Berton Churchill. d. John Ford s. Dudley Nichols, Lamar Trotti—based on Irvin S. Cobb's char- acter of Judge Priest. Fox 80 min. b/w 1934 The Judge Steps Out—Comedy-drama of a Massachusetts Probate Court judge who walks out on his family and responsibilities to become a new man—doing odd jobs in California. Alexander Knox, Ann Southern, George Tobias, Sharyn Moffett, Florence Bates, Frieda Inescort, Myrna Dell, Ian Wolfe, H. B. Warner, Martha Hyer. d. Boris Ingster s. Boris Ingster, Alexander Knox RKO 91 min. b/w 1949 Judgement at Nuremberg—Drama of the Nazi War Crimes Trials following World War II. Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Shell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift William Shatner, Werner Klemperer. d. Stanley Kramer s. Abby Mann United Artists 178 min. b/w 1961 Judgment Deferred—Drama of an escaped convict whose friends try the dope smuggler who framed him. Hugh Sinclair, Helen Shingler, Abraham Sofaer, Leslie Dwyer, Joan Collins, Harry Locke, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Marcel Poncin. d. John Baxter s. Geoffrey Orme, Barbara K. Emory, Walter Meade—based on the story Doss House by Herbert Ayres. GB: Group 3/Associated British Film Distributors 88 min. b/w 1952 Jury's Evidence—The foreman of an Old Bailey jury refuses to ac- cept circumstantial evidence and helps solve a murder case. Hartley Power, Margaret Lockwood, Nora Swinburne, Eve Gray, Sebastian Shaw, Tracy Holmes, Jane Millican, Patrick Ludlow, Charles Paton. d. Herbert Smith s. Ian Dalrymple—based on the play by Jack de Leon and Jack Celestin. GB: British Lion 74 min. b/w 1936 The Jury's Secret—The victim-of-circumstantial-evidence plot told in terms, not of the victim, but of the guilty person. Kent Taylor, Fay Wray, Larry Blake, Nan Grey, Samuel S. Hinds, Halliwell Hobbes, Granville Bates, Leonard Mudie, Ted Osborne. d. Ted Sloman s. Lester Cole, Norman Levy Universal 60 min. b/w 1938 Justice and Caryl Chessman—Documentary analyzing the 1948 Los Angeles trial of Caryl Chessman for kidnapping. d. Quentin Reynolds, Ed Spiegel s. Jules Maitland Terrence Cooney (producer); Bentley Films, Inc. (distributor) 45 min. b/w 1961 Kramer vs. Kramer—Drama of a failed marriage and a bitter child custody battle. Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry, Howard Duff, George Coe, Howland Chamberlain. d. Robert Benton s. Robert Benton—based on the novel by Avery Corman. Columbia 105 min. color 1979 Law and Disorder—British comedy which takes a cock-eyed view of crime and punishment. A young rogue decides to become a barrister and is eventually appointed aide to a pompous judge. Michael Redgrave, Robert Money, Joan Hickson, Jeremy Burn- ham, Ronald Squire, George Coulouris, Harold Goodwin, Sam Kydd, John Hewer, Lionel Jeffries. d. Charles Crichton s. T. E. B. Clarke, Patrick Campbell, Vivienne Knight—based on the novel Smuggler's Circuit by Denys Roberts. GB: Lion International Films 76 min. b/w 1958 The Law in Her Hands—Woman lawyer newly past the bar becomes quickly disillusioned and eventually becomes the underworld's leading mouthpiece. Margaret Lindsay, Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull, Lyle Talbot, Eddie Acuff, Dick Purcell, Al Shean, Joseph Crehan, Matty Fain, Addison Richards. d. William Clemens s. George Bricker, Luci Ward—from a story by Bricker. Warner Bros. 58 min. b/w 1936 The Law of the Lawless—A western drama concerning a judge who arrives in a small town to conduct the murder trial of a former friend. Dale Robertson, Yvonne de Carlo, William Bendix, Bruce Cabot, Barton MacLane, John Agar, Richard Arlen, Kent Taylor, Lon Chaney, Jr. d. William F. Claxton s. Steve Fisher Paramount 87 min. color 1963 The Lawyer—Drama of a tough, ambitious criminal lawyer defend- ing a case similar to the Chicago trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard. Barry Newman, Harry Gould, Diana Muldaur, Robert Colbert, Kathleen Crowley, Warren Kemmerling, Booth Colman, Ken Swotford, E. J. Andre, William Sylvester, Jeff Thompson. d. Sidney Furie s. Sidney Furie, Harold Buchman Paramount 117 min. color 1969 Lawyer Man—Melodrama of a lawyer who achieves some distinc- tion representing ghetto clients, becomes involved with the under- world and eventually becomes assistant prosecutor. William Powell, Joan Blondell, Helen Vinson, Allan Dinehart, Allen Jenkins, David Landau, Claire Dodd, Sheila Terry, Ken- neth Thompson, Jack LaRue, Rockcliffe Fellows. d. William Dieterle s. Rian James, James Seymour—based on a novel by Max Trell. Warner Bros. 68 min. b/w 1932 The Lawyers Secret—Melodrama concerning an attorney whose professional ethics forbid him to reveal the confidence of a client, and may allow an innocent man to be executed for murder. Clive Brook, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Jean Arthur, Francis McDonald, Harold Goodwin, Syd Saylor. d. Louis Gasnier, Max Marcin s. Lloyd Corrigan, Max Marcin—based on the story by James Hilary Finn. Paramount Publix 60 min. b/w 1931 The Letter—Drama of a rubber plantation owner's wife who kills a man in what seems to have been self-defense; but a letter written by her proves it to have been a crime of passion and becomes an instrument of blackmail. Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Sen Yung, Frieda Inescort, Gale Sondergaard, Bruce Lester, Tetsu Komai. d. William Wyler s. Howard Koch—based on the story and play by W. Somerset Maugham. Warner Bros. 95 min. b/w 1940 The Letter—First talking version of the above. Jeanne Eagles, O. P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne. d. Jean de Limur s. Garrett Fort—based on the story and play by W. Somerset Maugham. Paramount 61 min. b/w 1929 Libel—British courtroom drama of a libel suit concerning a baronet who is accused of being an imposter. Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Massie, Robert Morley, Wilfred Hyde-White. d. Anthony Asquith s. Anatole de Grunwald, Karl Tunberg—based on the play by Ed ward Wooll. GB: Anatole de Grunwald (producer); MGM (distributor) 100 min. b/w 1959 The Life of Emile Zola—Drama which centers on the famous Drey- fus case in France in the 1890's. Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Hol- den, Donald Crisp, Louis Calhern. d. William Dieterle s. Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, Norman Reilly Raine—from a story by Herald and Herczeg. Warner Bros. 116 min. b/w 1937 Live Today for Tomorrow—(also known as An Act of Murder) Drama concerning euthanasia. A judge who attempts to kill him- self and his mortally ill wife in a car crash is acquitted but claims that while legally innocent he is morally guilty. Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Geraldine Brooks, Edmund O'Brien, Stanley Ridges, John McIntire, Will Wright. d. Michael Gordon s. Michael Blankfort, Robert Thoeren—based on the novel The Mills of God by Ernst Lothar. Universal 91 min. b/w 1948 Madame X—First talking version of the tear-jerker about a fallen woman who finds herself defended in a murder trial by her unrec- ognized son. Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett, Mitchell Lewis, Sidney Toler, Carroll Nye, Richard Carle, Lewis Stone, Holmes Herbert, Eugenie Besserer. d. Lionel Barrymore s. Willard Mack—based on the play by Alexandre Bisson. MGM 95 min. b/w 1929 Madame X—Remake of the above. Gladys George, Warren William, John Beal, Reginald Owen, William Henry, Henry Daniell, Philip Reed, Lynne Carver. d. Sam Wood s. John Meehan—based on the play by Alexandre Bisson MGM 72 min. b/w 1937 Madame X—A third version. Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Mere- dith, Constance Bennett, Keir Dullea, John Van Dreelen, Virginia Grey. d. David Lowell Rich s. Jean Holloway—based on the play by Alexandre Bisson Universal 100 min. color1966 Made for Each Other—Soap opera about the problems of a young lawyer and his new wife which culminates in the near death of their infant son. Carole Lombard, James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Lucile Wat- son, Harry Davenport, Eddie Quillan, Esther Dale, Louise Beavers. d. John Cromwell s. Jo Swerling Selznick International 90 min. b/w 1938 The Magnificent Yankee—Biography of Supreme Court Justice Oli- ver Wendell Holmes. Louis Calhern, Ann Harding, Arthur Franz, Philip Ober, Ian Wolfe, Richard Anderson, James Lydon. d. John Sturges s. Emmet Lavery—from his play. MGM b/w 1950 A Man for All Seasons—Drama of the conflict between Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII leading to More's trial before a high court. Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Susannah York, Nigel Davenport, Vanessa Redgrave. d. Fred Zinnemann s. Robert Bolt—based on his play. Columbia 130 min. color 1966 The Man in the Middle—Drama set in India during World War II. An American lieutenant is indicted for murder and his defense counsel is instructed to lose the case. Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Keenan Wynn, Barry Sulli- van, France Nuyen, Alexander Knox. d. Guy Hamilton s. Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall—based on the novel The Win- ston Affair by Howard Fast. GB: TCF/Pennebaker/Belmont 94 min. b/w 1964 The Man Who Talked Too Much—Melodrama. Remake of The Mouthpiece, q.v. George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Richard Barthelmess, Virginia Bruce, William Lundigan, John Litel, George Tobias, Henry Armetta, Alan Baxter. d. Vincent Sherman s. Walter de Leon, Tom Reed—based on the play The Mouthpiece by Frank J. Collins. Warner Bros. 75 min. b/w 1940 Marked Woman—Five "shady ladies" take the stand to testify against the mob, with a gangland executioner waiting for them to leave the courtroom. Loosely inspired by the Thomas Dewey investigation of Lucky Luciano. Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Rosalind Marquis, Lola Lane, Jane Bryan, Mayo Methot, John Litel, Ben Welden, Damian O'Flynn, Henry O'Neill, Allen Jenkins. d. Lloyd Bacon s. Robert Rosson, Abem Finkel Warner Bros. 95 min. b/w 1937 Miracle on 34th Street—Whimsical comedy-drama of the trial of a man who claims to be Santa Claus. Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood, Porter Hall, William Frawley, Jerome Cowan, Philip Tonge, James Seay, Harry Antrim. d. George Seaton s. George Seaton—based on the story by Valentine Davies 20 Century-Fox 96 min. b/w 1947 Mr. and Mrs. Smith—Comedy of two law partners vying for the same woman, whose marriage to one of the two has been declared illegal. Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery, Gene Raymond, Jack Carson, Philip Merivale, Lucile Watson, William Tracy, Charles Halton, Esther Dale, Emma Dunn, William Edmunds. d. Alfred Hitchcock s. Norman Krasna RKO 90 min. b/w 1941 The Mouthpiece—Melodrama of an assistant district attorney who resigns when he discovers he is responsible for the conviction of an innocent man, becomes a drunk and later a prosperous lawyer for the underworld. Warren William, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon, William Jan- ney, John Wray, Polly Walters, Ralph Ince, Mae Madison, Noel Francis, Morgan Wallace, Guy Kibbee, J. Carrol Naish, Jack LaRue. d. James Flood, Elliott Nugent s. Earl Baldwin—based on the play by Frank J. Collins. Remade as: The Man Who Talked Too Much (WB 1940, q.v.) Warner Bros. 86 min. b/w 1932 Night Court (Justice for Sale)—Melodrama of a crooked magistrate and the murder of a judge. Phillips Holmes, Walter Huston, Anita Page, Lewis Stone, Mary Carlisle, John Miljan, Jean Hersholt, Tully Marshall, Noel Fran- cis, Warner Richmond. d. W. S. Van Dyke s. Bayard Veiller—based on an unproduced play by Mark Hel- linger and Charles Beahan. MGM 89 min. b/w 1932 Oscar Wilde—Biographical drama which treats the trials for libel and sodomy of Oscar Wilde. Robert Motley, Phyllis Calvert, John Neville, Sir Ralph Richard- son, Dennis Price, Alexander Knox, Edward Chapman, Robert Harris. d. Gregory Ratoff s. Jo Eisinger—based on the play of the same name by Leslie and Sewell Stokes GB: Four City Enterprises/Walton 96 min. color 1960 The Paper Chase—Drama of the trials and tribulations of a bright young Harvard Law School student during his first year at Cam bridge. Timothy Bottoms Lindsay Wagner, John Houseman, Graham Beckel, James Naughton, Edward Herrman, Craig Richard Nelson, Robert Lydiard. d. James Bridges s. James Bridges—based on the novel by John Jay Osborn 20th Century-Fox 112 min. color 1973 The Paradine Case—A respectable lawyer falls in love with his cli- ent, a woman accused of killing her husband. Gregory Peck, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ann Todd, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Valli, Leo G. Carroll. d. Alfred Hitchcock s. David O. Selznick, adapted by Alma Reville and James Bridie— based on a novel by Robert Hichens. Selznick International 131 min. b/w 1948 The People Against O'Hara—An old-fashioned courtroom drama where against all odds a lawyer manages to save an innocent boy from the electric chair. Spencer Tracy, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak, Pat O'Brien, Eduardo Ciannelli, James Arness. d. John Sturges s. John Monks, Jr.—based on a novel by Eleazar Lipsky. MGM 102 min. b/w 1951 A Place in the Sun—Factory worker who loves a wealthy society girl has an affair with a working girl. Climaxes in a sensational murder trial. Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Ann Revere, Ted de Corsia. d. George Stevens s. Michael Wilson, Harry Brown—based on the Theodore Dreiser novel An American Tragedy Previously filmed as: An American Tragedy (Paramount, 1931), q.v. Paramount 122 min. b/w 1951. Portia on Trial—Melodrama of a female trial lawyer and crusader for women's rights defending a woman charged with murder. Frieda Inescort, Walter Abel, Heather Angel, Neil Hamilton, Ruth Donnelly, Barbara Pepper, Clarence Kolb, Anthony Marsh, Paul Stanton, George Cooper, John Kelly, Hobart Bosworth. d. George Nichols, Jr. s. Samuel Ornitz—from a story by Faith Baldwin Republic 54 min. b/w 1937 The Rack—Army captain is on trial for collaborating with the enemy while a prisoner during the Korean conflict. Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon, Edmund O'Brien, Anne Francis, Lee Marvin, Trevor Bardette. d. Arnold Laven s. Stewart Stern—based on the teleplay by Rod Serling MGM 100 min. b/w 1956 Remember the Night—Drama of comedy and sentiment about an as- sistant district attorney who bails out the female jewel thief he is prosecuting and brings her back home with him for the Christmas holidays. Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Willard Robertson, Sterling Holloway, Charles Wal- dron, Paul Guilfoyle, Charlie Arnt, John Wray. d. Mitchell Leisen s. Preston Sturges Paramount 86 min. b/w 1940 Roxie Hart—Drama of a 1920's Chicago burlesque dancer whose trial for murder becomes a yellow-journal sensation. Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman, Nigel Bruce, Phil Silvers, Sara Allgood, William Frawley, Spring Byington, Helen Reynolds, George Chandler. d. William A. Wellman s. Nunnally Johnson—based on the play Chicago by Maurine Watkins 20th Century Fox 75 min. b/w 1942 See My Lawyer—Slapstick comedy involving three clientless law- yers and two comedians in need of 1egal advice for breaking their nightclub contract. Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Alan Curtis, Grace McDonald, Noah Beery, Jr. Franklin Pangborn, Edward S. Brophy, Richard Benedict, Lee Patrick, Gus Schilling. d. Eddie Cline s. Edmund L. Hartman, Stanley Davis—from the play by Richard Maibaum and Harry Clork. Universal 67 min. b/w 1945 Seems Like Old Times—Comedy of a woman lawyer, a believer in championing the underdog, who complicates her husband's hopes of running for Attorney General of California. Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Charles Grodin, Robert Guillaume, Harold Gould, George Grizzard, Yvonne Wilder, T. K. Carter, Judd Omen, Marc Alaimo. d. Jay Sandrich s. Neil Simon Columbia 102 min. color 1980 Sergeant Rutledge—Drama of the court-martial of a black soldier for a double murder and the rape of a while girl in the post-Civil War southwest. Jeffrey Hunter, Constance Towers, Woody Strode, Willis Bouchey, Carleton Young, Billie Burke. d. John Ford s. James Warner Bellah, Willis Goldbeck Warner Bros. 111 min. color 1960 The Star Witness—Melodrama concerning the intimidation of eye witnesses to a crime by gangsters. Walter Huston, Charles (Chic) Sale, Frances Starr, Grant Mit- chell, Sally Blane, Edward Nugent, Ralph Ince, Tom Dugan, Robert Elliott, Noel Madison. d. William A. Wellman s. Lucien Hubbard—based on his story. Warner Bros. 68 min. b/w 1931 State's Attorney—Melodrama of a youth, who has served a term in reform school, blossoming into an attorney for a murderous rack- eteer and then being elected district attorney. John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, William Boyd, Jill Esmond, Mary Duncan, Oscar Apfel, Raoul Roulien, Ralph Ince, Fred- erick Burton, Leon Waycoff. d. George Archainbaud s. Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown—based on a story by Louis Stevens. RKO 79 min. b/w 1932 The Talk of the Town—Comedy about a dry to-the-letter law pro- fessor, a Supreme Court nominee, who rents his house to a school teacher who is harboring a suspected arsonist. Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, George Watts, Frank W. Thomas. d. George Stevens s. Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman—adapted by Dale Van Every, author Sidney Harmon. Columbia 118 min. b/w 1942 Term of Trial—Drama of a schoolmaster accused of rape by a school girl he has scorned. He is found guilty, but the girl breaks down and the case is dismissed. Lawrence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp, Hugh Griffin, Roland Culver, Frank Pettingell, Thora Hird, Dud- ley Foster, Norman Bird. d. Peter Glenville s. Peter Glenville—based on the novel The Burden of Proof by James Barlow. GB: Romulus 130 min. b/w 1962 They Won't Forget—Drama involving an ambitious district attor- ney, a northerner in a small southern town railroaded through a murder trial, and a lynching. Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris Ott Kruger, Leonard Mudie, Lana Turner. d. Mervyn LeRoy s. Robert Rossen, Aben Kandel—based on the novel Death in the Deep South by Ward Greene and inspired by the Leo Frank case. Warner Bros. 90 min. b/w 1937 Through Different Eyes—A veteran district attorney cites an old murder case to illustrate the dangers of circumstantial evidence. Frank Craven, Donald Woods, Viviane Blane, Mary Howard, Jerome Cowan. d. Thomas Z. Loring s. Samuel G. Engel 20th Century-Fox 65 min. b/w 1943 Thru Different Eyes—Melodrama of a man on trial for murder with two versions of the story being shown through the "eyes" of the prosecutor and the defense attorney. Mary Duncan, Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Natalie Moor- head, Earle Foxe, Donald Gallagher, Florence Lake, Sylvia Sid- ney, Purnell Pratt. d. John Blystone dialog by Tom Barry, Milton Herbert Gropper—based on the story by Gropper and Edna Sherry. Fox 63 min. b/w 1929 To Kill a Mockingbird—A lawyer in a small southern town defends a black man accused of murder. Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, Paul Fix. d. Robert Mulligan s. Horton Foote—based on the novel by Harper Lee. Universal 129 min. b/w 1962 Town Without Pity—Drama concerning the trial of four GIs in post war Germany for the rape of a young woman. Kirk Douglas, E. G. Marshall, Christine Kaufmann, Hans Niel- sen, Karin Hardt, Robert Blake, Richard Jaeckel, Frank Sutton, Mal Sondock. d. Gottfried Reinhardt s. Silvia Reinhardt, George Hurdalek—based on the novel The Verdict by Manfred Gregor, adapted by Jan Lustig Mirisch Co./United Artists 105 min. b/w 1961 Trial—Drama of the murder trial of a Mexican boy which is fantas- tically exploited by a communist-backed organization. Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, Arthur Kennedy, John Hodiak, Katy Jurado, Rafael Campos, Juan Hernandez. d. Mark Robson s. Don M. Mankiewicz—from his novel. MGM 105 min. b/w 1955 The Trial—Kafka's allegory of a nameless man accused of and tried for a crime without being informed what it is. Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Orson Welles, Elsa Martinelli, Suzanne Flon, Akim Tamaroff. d. Orson Welles s. Orson Welles—from the novel by Franz Kafka. Fr: Paris Europa 118 min. b/w 1962 The Trial of Madame X—Woman's unknown son defends her for shooting a blackmailer. Mara Russell-Tavernan, Paul England, Edward Leslie, Frank Hawkins, Hamilton Deane, Hamilton Keene, Jean le Roy. d. Paul England s. Paul England—based on the play Madame X by Alexandre Bisson. GB: Invicta-Wyndham 54 min. b/w 1948 The Trial of Mary Dugan—Melodrama of a Broadway showgirl accused of murder and defended by her younger brother who is freshly graduated from law school. Norma Shearer, Lewis Stone, H. B. Warner, Raymond Hackett, Lilyan Tashman, Wilfred North. d. Bayard Veiller s. Becky Gardner—based on the play by Veiller. MGM 120 min. b/w 1929 The Trial of Mary Dugan—Remake of the above. Laraine Day, Robert Young, Tom Conway, Frieda Inescort, John Litel, Marsha Hunt, Marjorie Main, Henry O'Neill, Sara Haden, Addison Richards, Alma Kruger. d. Norman Z. McLeod s. Bayard Veiller—from his story. MGM 87 min. b/w 1941 The Trial of the Catonsville Nine—Dramatized documentary about nine Catholic anti-war activists found guilty in Baltimore Federal Court of having destroyed United States property when they raided the draft board in Catonsville, Md. Gwen Arner, Ed Flanders, Barton Heyman, Mary Jackson, Richard Jordan, Nancy Malone, Donald Moffat, Davis Roberts, Leon Russom, William Schallert, David Spielberg, Peter Strauss, Douglas Watson. d. Gordon Davidson s. Fr. Daniel Berrigan, Saul Levitt—based on the play by Berri- gan. Gregory Peck (producer) 85 min. color 1972 Trial of the Century (Hauptmann Trial)—Documentary short on the Lindberg kidnapping trial with film from Pathe, Paramount, Fox Movietone, Hearst, and Universal newsreels. Contains scenes from the trial—some silent and some with dialogue. Narrator: A. L. Alexander Super-Special Attractions, Inc. 22 min. b/w 1935 The Trial of Vivienne Ware—Melodramatic murder trial with un- believable courtroom antics culminating in the fatal shooting of a man while in the witness box. Joan Bennett, Donald Cook, Richard Gallagher, Zasu Pitts, Lilian Bond, Allan Dinehart, Herbert Mundin, Howard Phillips, Noel Madison. d. William K. Howard s. Philip Klein, Barry Connors—based on the novel by Kenneth M. Ellis Fox 60 min. b/w 1932 The Trials of Alger Hiss—Documentary concerning the two 1949 perjury trials of Alger Hiss, his imprisonment, and continuing struggle to clear his name. d. John Lowenthal s. John Lowenthal John Lowenthal (producer and distributor) 164 min. b/w 1980 The Trials of Oscar Wilde—Wilde sues the Marquess of Queens- berry for libel, loses, and is then prosecuted for sodomy. Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, John Fraser, Sonia Dresdel. d. Ken Hughes s. Ken Hughes—from the book by Montgomery Hyde and a play, The Stringed Lute, by John Furnell (U.S. title: The Man With the Green Carnation). GB: Warwick/Viceroy 128 min. color 1960 True Confession—Comedy of a habitual liar accused of murdering her too affectionate boss and defended by her husband, an idealis- tic, young attorney. Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, John Barrymore, Una Merkel, Porter Hall, Edgar Kennedy, Lynne Overman, Fritz Field, Richard Carle, John T. Murray, Tommy Dugan, Gary Owen, Toby Wing, Hattie McDaniel, Bernard Suss. d. Wesley Ruggles s. Claude Binyon—based on the play, Mon Crime, by Louis Ver- neuil and Georges Barr. Paramount 84 min. b/w 1937 Twelve Angry Men—Drama of a jury struggling to come to a verdict in the trial of a young boy for the murder of his father. Henry Fonda, Martin Balsam, John Fielder, Lee J. Cobb, E. G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Edward Binns, Jack Warden, John Sweeney, Ed Begley, George Voskovec, Robert Webber, Rudy Bond. d. Sidney Lumet s. Reginald Rose—based on his play. United Artists 95 min. b/w 1957 The Verdict—Drama of a down and out lawyer whose last chance for respectability is bringing suit against the Boston Archdiocese in a medical malpractice case. Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, James Mason, Jack Warden, Milo O'Shea, Edward Binns, Julie Bovasso, Lindsay Crouse. d. Sidney Lumet s. David Mamet—based on the novel by Barry Reed. 20th Century-Fox color 1982 The Winslow Boy—Drama of a 12 year old naval school cadet ex- pelled for stealing a postal order whose father spends all he has in proving his innocence. Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Marie Lohr, P. Kynaston Reeves, Jack Wading, Neil North, Francis L. Sullivan. d. Anthony Asquith s. Terence Rattigan, Anatole de Grunwald—from the play by Rat- tigan. GB: British Lion/London Films 117 min. 1948 Winterset—Drama based on the Sacco and Vanzetti case. Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Carradine, Edward Ellis, Paul Guilfoyle, Maurice Moscoviteh, Stanley Ridges, Willard Robertson, Misha Auer, Myron McCormick. d. Alfred Santell s. Anthony Veiller—adapted from the play by Maxwell Ander- son. RKO 89 min. b/w 1936 Witness for the Prosecution—Drama from the Agatha Christie mystery concerning a sensational London murder trial. Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lan- chester, John Williams, Henry Daniell. d. Billy Wilder s. Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz—based on the story and play by Agatha Christie. United Artists 114 min. b/w 1957 The Wrong Man—Frightening account of a wrongly accused man caught up in the criminal justice system. Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle, Harold J. Stone, Charles Cooper, John Heldabrant, Richard Robbins. d. Alfred Hitchcock s. Maxwell Anderson, Angus McPhail—based on The True Story of Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero by Anderson. Warner Bros. 105 min. b/w 1957 Zigzag—A dying man frames himself for an unsolved murder so that the reward money, claimed under another name, will go to his wife. George Kennedy, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Steve Inhat, Wil liam Marshall, Anita O'Day, Joe Maross. d. Richard Colla s. John Kelley—from an original story by Robert Enders. MGM 104 min. color 1970 l921-1930. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1971. 2 vols. American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures: Feature Films 1961-1970. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1976. 2 vols. Gifford, Denis, ed. The British Film Catalogue 1895-1970: A Reference Guide. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973. Halliwell, Leslie. Halliwell's Film Guide: A Survey of 8000 English Language Movies. New York: Scribners', 1977. Limbacher, James L. Feature Films on 8mm, 16mm and Videotape: A Directory of Feature Films Available for Rental, Sale and Lease in the United States and Canada. 7th ed. New York: R. R. Bowker. 1982. Michael, Paul. The American Movies Reference Book: The Sound Era. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969. New York Times Film Reviews, 1923-1980. New York: Arno, 1970-1981. 12 vols. Scheuer, Steven H., ed. TV Key Movie Guide. 3rd ed. New York: Bantam, 1966. White, David Manning and Richard Averson. 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