Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Inherit the Wind (1960)- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly - The Evolutionist vs Creationist debate is encapsulated in this courtroom recreation of the Monkey Trial of the 1920s (a Tennessee schoolteacher was…
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara… - Smalltown lawyer James Stewart defends a man accused of murdering a suspected rapist. The shifting ambiguities of the case make this more a…
Compulsion (1959)- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles… - As distinctive a rendition of the infamous Leopold–Loeb murder case as ROPE and SWOON, Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman playing the…
Young Philadelphians, The (1959)- Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Paul Newman, Barbara Rush - Engaging drama with Paul Newman as an attorney of dubious background who defends an affluent friend in a murder trial while hussling his way into the…
Perry Mason (TV Series) (1957-1966)- Feat. Raymond Burr, William Hopper, William Talman…
- Benchmark legal drama series which turned star Raymond Burr into a television institution as the near–invincible criminal lawyer, Perry…
Time Without Pity (1957)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Ann Todd… - Nervy noir has Michael Redgrave in top form as an alcoholic father racing against time to save his son from the gallows. Somewhat dated thriller…
Twelve Angry Men (12 Angry Men) (1957)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley… - Henry Fonda holds–out on a unanimous jury who wish to convict an alleged murderer. A sweltering tension is worked up as he struggles to…
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton… - Tense courtroom thriller, with Tyrone Power in the dock, defended by Charles Laughton, and consoled by wife Marlene Dietrich. Agatha Christie's story…
Please Murder Me (Please Murder Me!) (1956)- Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran… - Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury square off in this tough–minded noir about a lawyers who successfully defends his client only to discover…
Tight Spot (1955)- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith… - Tense crime melodrama in which Ginger Rogers is persuaded by attorney Edward G. Robinson to testify against her gangster boyfriend.
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