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Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American legal drama [2] film produced and directed by Otto Preminger.The screenplay by Wendell Mayes was based on the 1958 novel of the same name written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name of Robert Traver.
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After Small Town D.A., Voelker said that he "wanted to write [about] 'a criminal trial the way it really was.'" [7] He selected the Peterson murder trial from 1952. He wrote Anatomy of a Murder in three months and received an acceptance letter from a publisher in December 1956 just days before he was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court. [7]
A number of Alfred Hitchcock's films have been remade, with official remakes of Murder! and The Man Who Knew Too Much being directed by Hitchcock himself. North by Northwest and Saboteur are also considered by some scholars to be unofficial remakes of Hitchcock's English espionage thriller The 39 Steps.
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Later, Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with its frank courtroom discussions of rape and sexual intercourse led to the censors objecting to the use of words such as "rape", "sperm", "sexual climax" and "penetration". Preminger made but one concession (substituting "violation" for "penetration") and the picture was released with MPAA approval ...
In the film, Messi plays Snoop, the service dog to Milo (Milo Machado-Graner), who is blind. Milo finds his father dead, and the film follows a twisting murder trial where Sandra (Sandra Hüller ...
In another sequence, set during a trial, the director presaged his 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder with his use of loud, overlapping dialogue to create a sense of courtroom reality. [1] The film was a remake of the American Spanish-language film, Las fronteras del amor. [3]