“Paul Newman has the role of his later career. He uses none of his blue-eyed charm, and scarcely ever smiles except while telling bar jokes. He IS the bruised Frank Galvin, and you feel for him with every shot of Irish whiskey and every legal defeat.”
The winner of our Boston-themed vote following The Friends of Eddie Coyle.
Paul Newman stars as washed up Boston lawyer Frank Galvin, who grabs a final shot at redemption by taking on a lucrative medical negligence case against powerful attorney Edward Concannon (James Mason).
Everyone expects Frank to take the money and run. But he’s tired of running and recklessly brings the case to court… Directed by Sidney Lumet and written by David Mamet, with support from Charlotte Rampling and Jack Warden, The Verdict is one of the all-time great courtroom dramas and received four Oscar nominations.
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