The 1959 courtroom crime drama Anatomy of a Murder was directed by Otto Preminger and adapted by Wendell Mayes from the bestselling homonymous novel written by Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver. The film stars James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Eve Arden, and George C. Scott.
Anatomy of a Murderwas one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to address sex and rape in graphic terms. It includes one of Saul Bass's most celebrated title sequences, and a musical score, presented here in its entirety, composed, and performed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Ellington himself plays a character in the film, called Pie-Eye.
Anatomy of a Murderwas one of the first mainstream Hollywood films to address sex and rape in graphic terms. It includes one of Saul Bass's most celebrated title sequences, and a musical score, presented here in its entirety, composed, and performed by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Ellington himself plays a character in the film, called Pie-Eye.
TRACK LISTING
1. Main Title And Anatomy Of A Murder
2. Flirtibird
3. Way Early Subtone
4. Hero To Zero
5. Low Key Lightly
6. Happy Anatomy #1
7. Anatomy Of A Murder [stereo Single]
8. Merrily Rolling Along (Aka Hero To Zero)
9. Sunswept Sunday
10. Midnight Indigo
11. Almost Cried
12. Sunswept Sunday
13. Grace Valse
14. Happy Anatomy #2
15. Haupe
16. Upper And Outest
17. Beer Garden
18. Happy Anatomy #3
19. Polly (Aka Grace Valse, Haupe, Low Key Lightly, Midnight Indigo)