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Awards; budget and gross; Baltimore filming; rehearsals; armed judge; coffee cake; courtroom research
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- The original-screenplay nominees were this film, The China Syndrome, Manhattan, All That Jazz and winner Breaking Away; the winner is respected but a retrospective result is uncertain.
- The actor field pairs Pacino with Jack Lemmon, Roy Scheider, Peter Sellers and winner Dustin Hoffman, with Scheider considered a likely winner in most other years.
- The film reportedly cost $4 million and earned $33 million.
- The production is reported to have filmed entirely in Baltimore; the claim of 26 performances of the final speech is corrected to 26 rehearsals.
- Jewison’s commentary reportedly attributes the gun-firing judge to a real Texas judge.
- The coffee-cake scene reportedly required 26 takes and made Warden vomit from overeating.
- Levinson’s courtroom research emphasized misleading first impressions and the distinction between truth and justice; the theme is connected to Homicide: Life on the Street.
