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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 140 min.
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Plot: This adaptation of Allen Drurey's bestseller examines the U.S. Senate as it is called upon to confirm a controversial nominee for Secretary of State.
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Cast: Henry Fonda, Don Murray, Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Lew Ayers, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Paul Ford, Burgess Meredith. Directed by Otto Preminger.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Government ∙ Testimony |
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Rated: NR Stars: *****
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Format: DVD 160 min. B&W
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Plot: A small-town lawyer defends a jealous young Army officer charged with murdering the man who raped his wife.
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Cast: James Stewart, Arthur O'Connell, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, Kathryn Grant, George C. Scott, Joseph Welch, Orson Bean. Directed by Otto Perminger.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ Testimony |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 113 min.
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Plot: After a witness in his protection is killed, a San Francisco cop seeks the underworld kingpin responsible, culminating in a now-famous car chase.
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Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bissett. Directed by Peter Yates.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Testimony ∙ Action |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (4 disc set) 611 min.
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Plot: Characters deal with the after effects of adultery, divorce, a merger, and an ever changing social climate in late 1960s New York advertising.
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Cast: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, John Slattery, Kiernan Shipka, Robert Morse. Directed by Scott Hornbacher, Jon Hamm, Michael Uppendahl.
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Categories: Testimony ∙ Marital Relations ∙ Accounting |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 96 min.
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Plot: A hostess' client is murdered, but she won't help the prosecution build the case.
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Cast: Bette Davis Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Cianelli, Jane Bryan, Rosalind Marquis, Mayo Methot, Allen Jenkens. Directed by Lloyd Bacon.
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Categories: Witness ∙ Testimony ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 96 min. B&W
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Plot: When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him.
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Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart, Natalie Wood. Directed by George Seaton.
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Categories: Advocacy ∙ Fraud ∙ Testimony |
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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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