The language used during the film startled Chicago, Illinois Mayor Richard J. Daley, [18] and his police commissioner. As a result, the film was temporarily banned in the heavily Catholic city. [25] Preminger filed a motion in federal court in Illinois and the mayor's decision was overturned. The film was allowed to be exhibited after the court determined that the clinical language during the trial was realistic and appropriate within the film's context. [26] [27] Variety claimed that the film contained words never before heard in American films with the Motion Picture Production Code seal such as "contraceptive", (sexual) " climax" and " spermatogenesis". [19] The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – Howard Shore, John Kurlander (engineer/mixer) & Peter Cobbin (engineer/mixer) (2004)

In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". [5] [6] [7] James Stewart in the film's trailer Plot [ edit ] Brooks West (left) and James Stewart (right) face one another, as George C. Scott (center) looks on Chicago Loses Bid to Censor Movie". The Deseret News. Salt Lake City. July 9, 1959 . Retrieved October 28, 2011. I don't know, Mrs. Manion," I answered truthfully. "I'll naturally have to talk with him and look into the situation before I can decide. Then there is always the matter of making mutually agreeable financial arrangements."CD Review: The Great Lakes Myth Society". Blogcritics. Archived from the original on November 3, 2011 . Retrieved April 4, 2011. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. John D. Voelker Is Dead at 87; Author of 'Anatomy of a Murder' ". The New York Times. Associated Press. March 20, 1991 . Retrieved June 10, 2015.

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The author, John D. Voelker, using the pen name Robert Traver, wrote this novel shortly after being defeated in his bid for re-election for district attorney of Marquette County, MI and deciding to focus on his private law practice. This novel is based on his first big case on the “flipside” of the law as defense counsel instead of prosecutor and centered on an Army lieutenant accused of murdering a well-known local innkeeper for allegedly raping his wife. Voelker employed a little-known defense tactic in his pursuit to free his client.