Friday, August 29, 2008

Anatomy of a Murder

Panties, panties, panties!  Oh, there are so many good things I could say about this film**, but Kathryn Grant's "deer in the headlights" performance on the stand while Jimmy Stewart handles what's supposed to be Lee Remick's panties is burned into my retinas:  
This is supposed to be shocking, titillating... and I'm sure it was in 1959, but Jimmy has enough material in his hands for several articles of "decent" women's undergarments circa 2008, so it's just funny. 

**Okay, so here goes: I love the jazz soundtrack complete with a cameo by Duke Ellington, the general courtroom fighting between two screen greats, Lee Remick's outstanding performance in the face of the aforementioned greats, George C. Scott's purr as he says "midnight prowls", the way Paul Biegler plays up to the judge with a lure in the lawbook, Eve Arden and Arthur O'Connell providing excellent support to Stewart, and panties, panties, panties!

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