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Aug 24, 2013Monolith rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Otto Preminger's scandalous Golden Globe winning and multi Oscar nominated 1959 piece, feasibly the first film of its day to boldly and frankly present the issues of sex and rape to the general public. Banned in Chicago for its language content (that offended the Police Commissioner and Mayor Daley), and eventually overturned when Otto fought it, it features a stellar cast. The gorgeous, seductive, porcelain faced Lee Remick; Ben Gazzara as the wife beating/rapist killing army tough... shooting for the insanity plea; George C. Scott, (who's so new in the game that he's not credited in the trailer!), as Asst. State Atty. Gen. "Dancer", who smells blood and craves the kill; and Jimmy Stewart, as the fly-fishing/ivory ticking, wise and easily flustered counsel for the defense, in a terrific performance. The entire supporting cast (O'Connell, Arden, drunk dog...) was excellent; a brilliant screenplay adapted from a best selling novel penned by a Supreme Court Justice... Duke ("Pie-Eye") Ellington's groovy score... Awesome stuff. FIVE STARS.