A semi-retired Michigan lawyer takes the case of an Army lieutenant who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her.
James Stewart Paul Biegler
Lee Remick Laura Manion
Ben Gazzara Lt. Frederick Manion
Arthur O'Connell Parnell Emmett McCarthy
Eve Arden Maida Rutledge
George C. Scott Asst. State Atty. Gen. Claude Dancer
Duke Ellington Pie Eye (uncredited)
Otto Preminger Director