Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 161 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.
- adultery
- jealousy
- rape
- based on novel or book
- court case
- michigan
- judge
- hays code
- jazz
- jurors
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Stewart
Paul "Pauly" Biegler
Lee Remick
Laura Manion
Ben Gazzara
Lieutenant Frederick "Manny" Manion
Arthur O'Connell
Parnell Emmett "Parn" McCarthy
- Eve Arden — Maida Rutledge
- Kathryn Grant — Mary Pilant
- George C. Scott — AAG Claude Dancer
- Orson Bean — Dr. Matthew Smith
- Russ Brown — Deputy Sheriff George Lemon
- Murray Hamilton — Alphonse "Al" Paquette
- Brooks West — DA Mitchell "Mitch" Lodwick
- Ken Lynch — Det. Sgt. James "Jim" Durgo
- John Qualen — Deputy Sheriff Sulo Kangas
- Howard McNear — Dr. Adelord Dompierre
- Alexander Campbell — Dr. W. Gregory Harcourt
- Directed
- Otto Preminger
- Written
- Wendell Mayes
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 1,179 ratings
- Studio
- Carlyle Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
