A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: the defense of a young army lieutenant accused of murdering a local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife.

Austro-Hungarian émigré Otto Preminger’s movies dissect American society with surgical precision. This stands as his great masterpiece: a groundbreaking, enthralling, gold standard courtroom drama revealing cracks in the very notion of justice. Starring James Stewart, with music by Duke Ellington.