Review of The Verdict (1982) by Knox M — 26 Aug 2016

A man beaten down and ruined by the establishment for doing the right thing rises up the triumphant victor as the plaintiff's lawyer in a horrible malpractice case. Paul Newman and James Mason are great, as are Jack Warden and the Milo O'Shea (the Boston trial judge).

Legal accuracy is questionable in this one, but one could actually argue that it was legally accurate, showing that in the real world it's a lot of wheeling and dealing between the court and the parties than by the rule books.

Actually, that might have been part of the point, as when you watch the movie, the plaintiff's counsel and defendant's counsel both do things they could be disbarred for, and I dare say the judge might have been disbarred and impeached himself, just as Newman's character threatened in the movie.