Film · 1959 · Films · 1950s
Anatomy of a Murder
Scored from 253 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1950s (561 peers).
Summary
A small-town Michigan lawyer and former prosecutor takes on the defense of an Army lieutenant who has killed a local innkeeper, claiming the man raped his flirtatious wife. As the trial unfolds, the defense pursues an 'irresistible impulse' insanity plea against a sharp big-city prosecutor, while the truth about the marriage, the alleged assault, and the defendant's character remains stubbornly ambiguous.
Anatomy of a Murder (1959) is a film IMDb files under the drama and mystery genres.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 560 1950s films, not against the whole corpus. A second review pool sits behind it as well: 794 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 253 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 253 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.
Is Anatomy of a Murder (1959) worth watching?
- Cohort
- Films · 1950s · 561 titles
- Calibrated reviewers
- 253
Cohort: Films · 1950s
