Courtroom Drama
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    Steel Toes (2007)

    A liberal-minded Jewish defense lawyer (David Strathairn) must defend a skinhead (Andrew W. Walker)...

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    Breaking Point (December 04, 2009)

    Steven Luisi, a once prominent criminal defense attorney, is attempting to come back to the...

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    Criminal Court (1946)

    A wily candidate (Tom Conway) for district attorney defends his fiancee (Martha O'Driscoll) charged...

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    Cross Examination

    Such were the ways of Hollywood that the dignified H.B. Warner, who played Jesus in 1927's King of...

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    Cry the Beloved Country

    A preacher's (Canada Lee) son kills a rich white farmer's son (Charles Carson) in Johannesburg.

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    Eye Witness

    A lawyer (Robert Montgomery) goes to England for the murder trial of a war buddy, whose fate hangs...

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    Fury (1936)

    On the way to see his sweetheart (Sylvia Sidney) a man (Spencer Tracy) is wrongly jailed and...

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    Intruder in the Dust

    An attorney in a small Southern town reluctantly takes on the case of a black farmer accused of...

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    It Could Happen to You

    It Could Happen to You is one of those captivating "little" pictures whose reputation is built up...

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    Knock on Any Door (1949)

    A lawyer (Humphrey Bogart) builds a sob-story defense for a juvenile delinquent (John Derek) on...

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    Lady for a Night (1942)

    A riverboat queen (Joan Blondell) leaves her partner (John Wayne) to marry into high society but is...

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    The Long Dark Hall

    An Englishman (Rex Harrison) with a loyal wife (Lilli Palmer) stands trial for the murder of his...

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    Madeleine

    Upper-class Madeleine Smith (Ann Todd) stands trial for killing her French lover (Ivan Desny) in...

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    They Meet Again

    Country Dr. Christian (Jean Hersholt) helps a bank worker accused of embezzling.

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    They Won't Forget (1937)

    A Southern lynch mob and a district attorney (Claude Rains) say a Northern teacher (Edward Norris)...

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    The Winslow Boy (1950)

    The plight of a young boy unjustly accused of stealing touches off a massive lawsuit for defamation...

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    Winterset (1936)

    A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly...

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    Wives under Suspicion

    James Whale's Wives Under Suspicion is remake of Whale's own 1933 production A Kiss Before the...

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    Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

    Illinois lawyer Abraham Lincoln (Henry Fonda) becomes known for his honesty and solves a murder with...

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    An Act of Murder

    A lawyer (Edmond O'Brien) defends a judge (Fredric March) who drove his terminally ill wife...

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    Bellamy Trial

    Popular silent-screen star Leatrice Joy made an adequate talking-picture debut in MGM's The Bellamy...

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    Career Woman

    Admidst a sea of melodramatic and unbelievable courtroom dramas, Career Woman is distinguished by...

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    The Case of Gabriel Perry

    Henry Oscar plays Gabriel Perry in this rusty-dusty British courtroom drama. Perry is the local...

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    The Case of the Howling Dog

    Lawyer Perry Mason (Warren William) shows the jury the truth about three murders stemming from a...

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    The Cavalier of the Streets

    In this courtroom drama a barrister's wife is tried for her husband's murder. To save the innocent...

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    Criminal Lawyer

    Though made in 1951, Criminal Lawyer has the feel of a 1930s film, right down to the casting of Pat...

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    I, Jane Doe

    In this courtroom drama, a French girl stands trial for murder. Flashbacks tell the grim story of...

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    Jury's Evidence

    One man's attempts to convince his fellow jurors of the defendant's innocence provides the basis of...

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    The Jury's Secret

    Universal ran into censorship problems with this farfetched but well-acted courtroom drama directed...

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