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Graybeard

(6,996 posts) Sun Mar 18, 2012, 11:16 AM Mar 2012

New Criterion "Anatomy Of A Murder".

Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) has gotten the Criterion treatment in this sharp restoration. And sharp describes the courtroom scenes between James Stewart and George C. Scott.

Otto Preminger's best film after "Laura" it was up for Best Picture Oscar but that was the year of the Ben-Hur sweep.

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New Criterion "Anatomy Of A Murder". (Original Post) Graybeard Mar 2012 OP

A great film. One of my "desert island" movies Populist_Prole Mar 2012 #1

Love that movie and book. likesmountains 52 Mar 2012 #2

Preminger did have a dynamite novel to film. Graybeard Mar 2012 #3

Populist_Prole

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1. A great film. One of my "desert island" movies

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Sun Mar 18, 2012, 11:36 AM

Mar 2012

I've gotten others to watch it against their initial objections and every single one of them raved about the movie afterwards.

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likesmountains 52

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2. Love that movie and book.

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Sun Mar 18, 2012, 11:39 AM

Mar 2012

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Graybeard

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3. Preminger did have a dynamite novel to film.

Reply to likesmountains 52 (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 18, 2012, 11:45 AM

Mar 2012

And he presented the whole book almost word for word. (One change he made early on was to make the soldier and wife younger. He originally cast Lana Turner but went with Lee Remick who was great!)

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