Presumed Innocent (Warner 1990, Harrison Ford, Greta Scacchi)

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November 15, 2018

Riveting courtroom drama starring Harrison Ford as a Deputy prosecutor, who is accused of murdering his beautiful co-worker, played by Greta Scacchi, with whom he had a secret affair. Ford is assigned to investigate the murder by his boss Chief Prosecutor (Brian Dennehy), who is trying to get re-elected. Ford desperately tries to uncover the facts while trying to cover his own intimate connection to the victim. Based on Scott Turow’s bsetselling novel.

In order to prepare for his role as a prosecutor in the 1990 film Presumed Innocent Harrison Ford spent several weeks in Detroit with the Chief Assistant Prosecutor studying files, courtroom procedures and watching training films. Ford’s presence in the courts caused so much chaos from attorneys, clerks and judges who were trying to get a look at the actor in court, that a deputy had to post a note on the door reading HARRISON FORD HAS LEFT THE COURTHOUSE.

production details
USA | Warner Bros. | 127 minutes | 1990

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Producer:s: Sidney Pollack, Mark Rosenberg
Director of Photography:: Gordon Willis
Editor:: Evan Lottman
Music: John T. Williams
Script: Alan J. Pakula, Frank Pierson
Art Director: Bob Guerra

cast
Harrison Ford as Rozat ‘Rusty’ Sabich
Brian Dennehy as Raymond Horgan
Raúl Juliá as Sandy Stern
Bonnie Bedelia as Barbara Sabich
Paul Winfield as Judge Larren Lyttle
Greta Scacchi as Carolyn Polhemus
John Spencer as Det. Lipranzer
Joe Grifasi as Tommy Molto
Tom Mardirosian as Nico Della Guardia
Anna Maria Horsford as Eugenia
Sab Shimono as ‘Painless’ Kumagai
Bradley Whitford as Jamie Kemp
Christine Estabrook as Lydia ‘Mac’ MacDougall
Michael Tolan as Mr. Polhemus
Madison Arnold as Sgt. Lionel Kenneally
Joseph Mazzello as Wendell McGaffney
Tucker Smallwood as Det. Harold Greer
Peter Appel as Glendenning
Joseph Carberry as Mr. McGaffney
Bill Winkler as Tom
Ed Wheeler as Arresting Detective Jim
Jeffrey Wright as Prosecuting Attorney

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