The Lawyer (film)

The Lawyer
Directed bySidney J. Furie
Written bySidney J. Furie
Harold Buchman
Produced byBrad Dexter
StarringBarry Newman
Diana Muldaur
Harold Gould
CinematographyRalph Woolsey
Edited byArgyle Nelson Jr.
Music byMalcolm Dodds
Production
company
Furie Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • March 10, 1970 (1970-03-10) (New York City)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1.8 million[1]

The Lawyer is a 1970 American courtroom drama film loosely based on the Sam Sheppard murder case in which a physician is charged with killing his wife following a highly publicized and sloppy investigation. The film was directed by Sidney J. Furie and stars Barry Newman as the energetic, opportunistic defense attorney Tony Petrocelli and Diana Muldaur as his wife Ruth Petrocelli.,[2]

The film is the source of the role that Newman reprised in the television series Petrocelli.

  1. ^ "The Lawyer (1970)". AFI. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  2. ^ New York Times movie review by Vincent Canby