The Lawyer (film)
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Director Sidney J. Furie Music director Malcolm Dodds Country United States | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Drama Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date May 15, 1970 (1970-05-15) Writer Harold Buchman, Sidney J. Furie, Ivan Goff (teleplay), Ben Roberts (teleplay) Initial release March 10, 1970 (New York City) Screenplay Sidney J. Furie, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Harold Buchman Cast Barry Newman (Tony Petrocelli), Diana Muldaur (Ruth Petrocelli), Harold Gould (Eric P. Scott), Booth Colman (Judge Crawford), Ken Swofford (Charlie O'Keefe)Similar movies Related Sidney J Furie movies Tagline Wilma Harrison had it all. A wealthy doctor for a husband. A big playboy for a lover. A beautiful home. And a horrible death. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Lawyer is a 1970 courtroom drama film loosely based on the Sam Sheppard murder case, in which a physician is charged with killing his wife following a highly publicized and sloppy investigation. The film was directed by Sidney J. Furie and starred Barry Newman as the energetic, opportunistic defense attorney Tony Petrocelli. Diana Muldaur co-starred as Ruth Petrocelli. The film is the source of the role Newman reprised in the TV series Petrocelli.
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Plot
Tony Petrocelli is a Harvard-educated attorney of Italian heritage who practices in an unidentified part of the American Southwest. He works (and drives) at a frenetic pace, not only because he is a zealous advocate for his defendants (which includes a regular run of drunks and other small-time criminal cases) but because of the vast distances of western prairie he must cross in order to meet clients, investigate his cases and make court appointments.
A big case lands in his lap when he is asked to defend a young, prosperous physician who expects to be charged with the bludgeoning murder of his socialite wife.
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