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Rating: Q=6, P=5 / Average OJ
Scale 1=3, Scale 2=3, Scale 3=3, Scale 4=2
Crime, Mystery, Courtroom
Duke Ellington cameo and soundtrack. Jimmy Stewart as a fisherman/jazz pianist/attorney. George C. Scott as a slick city attorney. Glorious script, for example:
"One judge is quite like another. The only differences may be in the state of their digestions or their proclivities for sleeping on the bench. For myself, I can digest pig iron. And while I might appear to doze occasionally, you will find that I am easily awakened, particularly if shaken gently by a good lawyer with a nice point of law."
I loved so much of this movie. But it's also hard to watch because it is about a rape. The way that women were and still are questioned/prosecuted by lawyers and attorneys is frequently unexceptable and unbearable. Sometimes even disgusting.
After watching this film I remembered how much I love Preminger's writing. And the way he always makes the films feel like an escape. Despite this one being nearly 3 hours, I don't think I was tired or bored or distracted for a second.
Duke Ellington cameo and soundtrack. Jimmy Stewart as a fisherman/jazz pianist/attorney. George C. Scott as a slick city attorney. Glorious script, for example:
"One judge is quite like another. The only differences may be in the state of their digestions or their proclivities for sleeping on the bench. For myself, I can digest pig iron. And while I might appear to doze occasionally, you will find that I am easily awakened, particularly if shaken gently by a good lawyer with a nice point of law."
I loved so much of this movie. But it's also hard to watch because it is about a rape. The way that women were and still are questioned/prosecuted by lawyers and attorneys is frequently unexceptable and unbearable. Sometimes even disgusting.
After watching this film I remembered how much I love Preminger's writing. And the way he always makes the films feel like an escape. Despite this one being nearly 3 hours, I don't think I was tired or bored or distracted for a second.
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