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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 74 min. B&W
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Plot: A jury foreman is responsible for tipping the scales of justice in favor of a guilty verdict that sent an innocent girl to her death in the electric chair.
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Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Fox, O.P. Heggie, Henry Hull, Margaret Wycherly, Lynne Overman, Katherine Wilson. Directed by Chester Erskine.
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Categories: Jury ∙ Jurisprudence ∙ Romance |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 88 min. B&W
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Plot: Believing he can commit the perfect crime, a man robs and murders an elderly pawnbroker, but soon finds himself engaged in a battle of wits with a policeman determined to wring out a confession.
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Cast: Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh, Robert Allen. Directed by Josef von Sternberg.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Ethics ∙ Jurisprudence |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 83 min. B&W
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Plot: A young man that is wrongfully convicted has a chance at being pardoned, but must break the criminal code and identify an inmate who has murdered another.
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Cast: Boris Karloff, Walter Huston, Philips Holmes. Directed by Howard Hawkes.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Justice ∙ Jurisprudence |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 123 min.
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Plot: A 17th-century Salem woman accuses an ex-lover's wife of witchery in an adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Soon the entire village is gripped in a fever of hysteria, bigotry and fear.
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Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen, Paul Scofield. Directed by Nicholas Hytner.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Drama ∙ Jurisprudence |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 130 min. B&W
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Plot: A two part episode from the Studio One series about a man on trial for murder.
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Cast: Martin Balsam, Ralph Bellamy, Steve McQueen, William Shatner. Directed by Robert Mulligan.
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Categories: Criminal Law ∙ Jurisprudence ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 105 min.
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Plot: Two young women accuse nine black youths of rape in the segregated South.
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Cast: Anthony Mackie, Bill Sage, Azura Skye, Bill Smitrovich. Directed by Terry Green.
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Categories: Racism ∙ Jurisprudence ∙ Civil Rights |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 tape set) 178 min. B&W
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Plot: The Allied judge presiding over the trial of accused Nazi war criminals must not only deal with their guilt but with the guilt of a society that allowed such crimes to occur.
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Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Maximillian Schell, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland. Directed by Stanley Kramer.
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Categories: Jurisprudence ∙ International ∙ War |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: A man is nearly killed by the inhabitants of a badlands bar and brothel. He returns to take vengeance.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Stacey Keach, Victoria Principal, Jacqueline Bisset, Ava Gardner. Directed by John Huston.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Western ∙ Jurisprudence |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 99 min. B&W
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Plot: A child murderer is chased through the city by both the police and the underworld. Subtitled in English.
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Cast: Peter Lorre, Gustav Grundgens. Directed by Fritz Lang.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Jurisprudence ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 216 min. B&W
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Plot: A Frenchman of good character has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his relentless pursuit by a policeman.
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Cast: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Directed by Joseph M. Schenk.
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Categories: Musical ∙ Law Enforcement ∙ Jurisprudence |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg brings a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals.
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Cast: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux, Sam Waterston, Kathy Bates. Directed by Mimi Leder.
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Categories: Gender ∙ Jurisprudence ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 110 min.
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Plot: In this comedy of justice, a pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief physically insults her husband. In Chinese, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Quesheng Lei, Zhijun Ge. Directed by Yimou Zhang.
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Categories: Jurisprudence ∙ Foreign ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: PG Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A failed musician is incarcerated for bank robbery.
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Cast: Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Marcel Hillaire, Jacquelyn Hyde. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Jurisprudence ∙ Sentencing |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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