Anatomy of a Murder
Frederick Manion (Ben Gazzara), a lieutenant in the army, is arrested for the murder of a bartender, Barney Quill. He claims, in his defense, that the victim had raped and beaten up his wife Laura (Lee Remick). Although Laura supports her husband's story, the police surgeon can find no evidence that she has been raped. Manion is defended by Paul Biegler (James Stewart), a rather humble small-town lawyer. During the course of interviews, Biegler discovers that Manion is violently possessive and jealous, and also that his wife has a reputation for giving her favors to other men. Biegler realizes that the prosecution will try to make the court believe that Laura was the lover of the bartender and than Manion killed him and beat her up when he discovered them together. Manion pleads "not guilty" and Biegler, who knows that his case is weak, sets his assistants to try to find a witness who will save Manion.
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IMDb (8.0/10) | Metacritic (95/100) | Rotten Tomatoes (100%)
Genres
Drama, Mystery
Director
Otto Preminger
Writers
Wendell Mayes, John D. Voelker
Actors
James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara
Plot Summary
An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
Note from Encoder
Encoded with a modified slow 2-Pass @ 22 MB/s. Audio tracks include two uncompressed FLAC mono English tracks, the 7.1 TrueHD Atmos English upmix, and lossy EAC3 tracks in English and other languages. I have chosen to use the original mono track from the Laserdisc release as the main audio as it was the primary track in the remux (and I think it sounds the best) but the other tracks are included for those who want them. Includes subtitles in English and other languages plus a commentary track and extras. There were no new extras in the UHD release so I've just included the extras folder that my 1080p release had. If you have that version you don't need to download the extras folder as they are the same encodes as before. Screenshots have been tone mapped and do not represent the full quality of the picture when played in HDR.
Media Information
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- Anatomy of a Murder (1959) (2160p BluRay x265 10bit HDR FLAC 1 0 r00t)
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