The Law

Oct 22, 1974

2h 4m

★ 0.0

Overview

An examination of the workings of a big city's legal system as seen through the eyes of people involved in a sensational murder trial.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

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Cast

Murray Stone

Judd Hirsch

Gene Carey

John Beck

Bobbie Stone

Bonnie Franklin

Judge Rebeccah Fornier

Barbara Baxley

Jules Benson

Sam Wanamaker

Leonard Caporni

Allan Arbus

Thomas Q. Rachel

John Hillerman

William Bright

Gary Busey

Reb Brown

Don Calfa

Stack Pierce

Mrozek

Alex Wilson

Early 20th century England: while toasting his daughter Catherine's engagement, Arthur Winslow learns the royal naval academy expelled his 14-year-old son, Ronnie, for stealing five shillings. Father asks son if it is true; when the lad denies it, Arthur risks fortune, health, domestic peace, and Catherine's prospects to pursue justice.

7.1

I Confess

Feb 13, 1953

Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.

6.6

Queen

Jan 12, 2018

The story starts with the inauguration of the first-ever Mechanical batch in an engineering campus. The batch consists of boys only. Later in the second year of the department, a girl joins and becomes the only girl to be a part of their batch. As the story evolves, the girl grabs all their love and attention and becomes the QUEEN of the batch.

5.8

Crime Without Passion

Aug 30, 1934

Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.

6.5

Woman Against the World

Sep 1, 1937

A young woman marries against her father's will, but the happy life she expected turns into a series of tragedies.

6.9

If Beale Street Could Talk

Dec 14, 2018

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

0.0

La sentencia

Jun 9, 1964

A young man discovers an infidelity and kills his wife. He was in love with this girl and had married her to get her out of a correctional institute.

6.3

Tales of Manhattan

Aug 5, 1942

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by its tailor has on those who wear it. The video release features a W.C. Fields segment not included in the original theatrical release.

6.2

The Paradine Case

Dec 31, 1947

Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer is drawn to the enigmatic beauty, and he begins to cast about for a way to exonerate his client. Keane puts the Paradine household servant on the stand, suggesting he is the killer. But Keane soon loses his way in the courtroom, and his half-baked plan sets off a stunning chain of events.

7.2

Murder in the First

Jan 20, 1995

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

6.6

The Skeleton Key

Jul 29, 2005

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

6.0

Miscreant

Oct 11, 2018

A young law school student explains to detectives just how he came to be found in a house with three dead bodies.

0.0

Madame X

Sep 28, 1920

Jacqueline Floriot is driven from her home by her husband Louis, a deputy attorney of Paris, because of his unjust suspicions regarding her relations with another man. Floriot forbids Jacqueline to see her baby boy, who is dangerously ill, and when informed that the boy believes her dead, she attempts suicide.

6.1

Under Suspicion

Aug 24, 2000

A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer.

7.2

Wall Street

Dec 10, 1987

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, whom takes the youth under his wing.

6.0

Bringing Down the House

Mar 7, 2003

Uptight lawyer Peter Sanderson wants to dive back into dating after his divorce and has a hard time meeting the right women. He tries online dating and lucks out when he starts chatting with a fellow lawyer. The two agree to meet in the flesh, but the woman he meets — an escaped African-American convict named Charlene — is not what he expected. Peter is freaked out, but Charlene tries to convince him to take her case and prove her innocence. Along the way, she wreaks havoc on his middle-class life as he gets a lesson in learning to lighten up.

6.7

The Client

Jul 20, 1994

A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.

6.7

Love, Fall & Order

Oct 12, 2019

When Claire goes home to save her dad's annual Fall Fest on her family's pumpkin farm, sparks fly with an old rival – the opposing lawyer she now faces in court.

6.3

Changing Lanes

Apr 7, 2002

A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.

6.2

New York Stories

Mar 10, 1989

Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.