Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

• Columbia Pictures
• Otto Preminger Films
• James Stewart
• Lee Remick
• Ben Gazzara
• Arthur O'Connell
• Eve Arden
• Kathryn Grant
• George C. Scott
• Orson Bean