Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

• DirectorOtto Preminger
• Release1 July 1959
• Genre
  Crime / Drama
• Duration2h 41m
• Budget$2,000,000
• Revenue$8,000,000
• Rate
  

  7.845
  1045 reviews
• Productions

  Columbia Pictures, Otto Preminger Films