Adapted by Robert Bolt and Constance Willis from Bolt's hit stage play, A Man for
All Seasons stars Paul Scofield, triumphantly repeating his stage role as Sir Thomas More. The crux of the film is the staunchly Catholic More's refusal ...
Based on the best-selling novel by Robert Traver (the pseudonym for Michigan Supreme Court justice
John D. Voelker), Anatomy of a Murder stars James Stewart as seat-of-the-pants Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler. Through the intervention of his alcoholic mentor, Parnell McCarthy ...
Norman Jewison's blackly satirical look at the American justice system has gained in stature as
one of the more incisive social commentaries of its time. Al Pacino plays Arthur Kirkland, an incorruptible attorney who attempts to initiate reforms in the ...
Crusading publisher Austin Spenser (Sidney Blackmer) wants to prove a point about the insufficiency of
circumstantial evidence. Spencer talks his prospective son-in-law Tom Garrett (Dana Andrews) into participating in a hoax, the better to expose the alleged ineptitude of conviction-happy ...
Elevating Criminal Court above the B-picture norm is the inventive direction by Robert Wise and
the better-than-usual performances by all concerned. In a break from his heroic Falcon role, Tom Conway stars as Steve Barnes, a criminal attorney known for ...
Fritz Lang's first American film is a vigorous and perceptive indictment of mob law, starring
Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney. Katherine (Sidney) leaves her boyfriend, Joe Wilson (Tracy), behind in their Midwestern hometown when she takes a job in another ...
A pre-stardom Bette Davis struggles mightily as the other woman in this rather obvious divorce
court drama from Warner Bros. George Brent stars as William Reynolds, a hardworking but markedly unmotivated office manager whose wife, Nan (Ann Dvorak), manages to ...
The My Left Foot team of star Daniel Day-Lewis and director Jim Sheridan were reunited
to make this political docudrama about Irish citizen Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis), who was wrongly convicted of taking part in an IRA bombing that killed five ...