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Post by spiderwort on May 1, 2018 22:41:07 GMT
Courtroom Dramas are a generally fascinating genre that can cover all legal elements - trials, attorney/client meetings/research, jury consideration, etc. Your choices don't have to be entirely about or take place only in the courtroom, but that should be the focal point of the drama. And they can be from any period.
Just a few of my favorites:
12 Angry Men (1957) - Sidney Lumet
La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc (1928) - Carl Theodor Dreyer
A Few Good Men (1992) - Rob Reiner
Breaker Morant (1980) - Bruce Beresford
Boomrang! (1947) - Elia Kazan
There are so many more, I know.
(I just realized that 4 out of those 5 are based upon true stories. Interesting.)
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Post by mattgarth on May 1, 2018 22:49:42 GMT
Adding (as a start):
TRIAL -- Mark Robson
THEY WON'T FORGET -- Mervyn LeRoy
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - Robert Milligan
THE YOUNG PHILADELPHIANS -- Vincent Sherman
ANATOMY OF A MURDER -- Otto Preminger
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Post by movielover on May 1, 2018 22:52:15 GMT
The Verdict
Jagged Edge
Anatomy of a Murder
Eight Men Out
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Disclosure
The Bedroom Window
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
And Justice For All
Inherit the Wind
Suspect
Presumed Innocent
My Cousin Vinny
Nuts
Sleepers
Liar Liar
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Post by mikef6 on May 1, 2018 23:10:36 GMT
There is a chaotic (and hilarious) trial in the Marx Bros’ Duck Soup (1933)
There is a great one in John Ford’s Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) that is more historical than you might think at first.
There is a kind of supernatural trial in All That Money Can Buy (a.k.a. The Devil And Daniel Webster) (1941).
There is a trial in Heaven in A Matter Of Life And Death (1946)
Ginger Rogers goes on trial in Roxie Hart (1942) – based on the play that Chicago (2002) was based on.
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Post by bravomailer on May 1, 2018 23:32:33 GMT
I like the brief court scenes in Paths of Glory and True Grit (2010).
I thought A Few Good Men was marred by too many cute lines from Cruise, for which I blame the director and writers, not Cruise. Also I never bought the idea of Col Jessup coming unhinged on the stand and admitting guilt.
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Post by bravomailer on May 1, 2018 23:58:32 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on May 2, 2018 0:05:46 GMT
Peter Lorre is put on trial in M  |
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Post by politicidal on May 2, 2018 0:11:12 GMT
12 Angry Men (1957)
A Few Good Men (1992)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961)
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Post by Staccato on May 2, 2018 0:38:58 GMT
The Caine Mutiny
The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell
Town Without Pity
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Post by bravomailer on May 2, 2018 0:42:02 GMT
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) Montgomery Clift and Macmillan Schell give outstanding performances. The film gives a surprisingly complicated look at the Nazi sterilization program. There's a remarkable scene where Schell, the defense attorney, reads a statement justifying sterilization as benefiting society. He then asks, rather bombastically, if anyone knows who wrote the statement. In the context we suspect it was Göbbels, Himmler, or Hitler himself. Schell tell the court that words were written by US Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Buck v Bell. |
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Post by politicidal on May 2, 2018 0:43:36 GMT
Judgement at Nuremberg (1961) Montgomery Clift and Macmillan Schell give outstanding performances. The film gives a surprisingly complicated look at the Nazi sterilization program. There's a remarkable scene where Schell, the defense attorney, reads a statement justifying sterilization as benefiting society. He then asks, rather bombastically, if anyone knows who wrote the statement. In the context we suspect it was Göbbels, Himmler, or Hitler himself. Schell tell the court that words were written by US Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Buck v Bell. Yeah, that they did this in 1961 is all the more impressive. |
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Post by bravomailer on May 2, 2018 0:57:25 GMT
Montgomery Clift and Macmillan Schell give outstanding performances. The film gives a surprisingly complicated look at the Nazi sterilization program. There's a remarkable scene where Schell, the defense attorney, reads a statement justifying sterilization as benefiting society. He then asks, rather bombastically, if anyone knows who wrote the statement. In the context we suspect it was Göbbels, Himmler, or Hitler himself. Schell tell the court that words were written by US Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in Buck v Bell. Yeah, that they did this in 1961 is all the more impressive. As I recall the trial is presented in the context of the Cold War, with the implication that the Germans shouldn't be dealt with too harshly as they were now allies against the Soviet Union. |
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Post by MCDemuth on May 2, 2018 1:18:59 GMT
Ginger Rogers goes on trial in Roxie Hart (1942) – based on the play that Chicago (2002) was based on. I was going to mention that film... But you beat me to it!  I think Roxie Hart (1942) is better than Chicago (2002), since Roxie Hart isn't a musical...and Ginger Rogers was great in the film too. |
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Post by OldAussie on May 2, 2018 1:32:55 GMT
The Rainmaker is one of my favourites - along with dozens of others already mentioned. This is a favourite genre of mine.
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Post by movielover on May 2, 2018 3:41:45 GMT
The Verdict Jagged Edge Anatomy of a Murder Eight Men Out Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Disclosure The Bedroom Window Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil And Justice For All Inherit the Wind Suspect Presumed Innocent My Cousin Vinny Nuts Sleepers Liar Liar Haven't seen all these, ML (are they all favorites?), but I do love INHERIT THE WIND, THE VERDICT, and ANATOMY OF MURDER - among the best, I think. I put the favorites in the top half. But the bottom half ones are good too. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2018 3:59:33 GMT
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Post by Ass_E9 on May 2, 2018 4:13:40 GMT
Class Action (1991)
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2018 4:23:11 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2018 5:00:19 GMT
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Post by teleadm on May 2, 2018 17:05:58 GMT
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