| 词条 | The Dock Brief |
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| name = The Dock Brief | image = Trial and error dvd cover.JPG | caption = Cover of 1999 DVD version | producer = Dimitri de Grunwald | director = James Hill | writer = {{small|Screenplay:}} Pierre Rouve {{small|Play:}} John Mortimer | starring = Peter Sellers Richard Attenborough Beryl Reid David Lodge Frank Pettingell | cinematography = Edward Scaife | music = Ron Grainer | studio = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studio | distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (USA/UK) | released = {{Film date|1962|09|20|UK|df=y}} | country = United Kingdom | runtime = 88 minutes 77 minutes (DVD) | language = English | budget = }} The Dock Brief (US title Trial and Error) is a 1962 black-and-white British legal satire directed by James Hill, starring Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough, and based on the play of the same name written by John Mortimer (creator of Horace Rumpole). The film had its world premiere on 20 September 1962 at the Plaza Theatre in London's West End.[1] Richard Attenborough was nominated for the 1963 BAFTA Award for best British actor for his role. PlotIn a cell under the Old Bailey, two men meet. One is Wilfred Morgenhall, an unmarried barrister who never gets any cases and is overjoyed to have won this dock brief, the defence of an accused individual with no lawyer (at public expense). The other is his client Herbert Fowle, an insignificant man who just wants to plead guilty to murdering his wife and get it all over. Flashbacks show that the wife was impossible to live with and Fowle, who avoided her as much as possible, hatched a plot to get rid of her by taking in a male lodger. The lodger found her amusing and attractive, until one day he went too far and Mrs Fowle threw him out of the house. In despair at his plot having failed, Fowle killed her. Morgenhall role plays various defences, in the process raising Fowle's will to fight. But when the case is called, he botches it and Fowle is found guilty. Morgenhall goes to visit him in prison, where he learns that Fowle has been reprieved because his defence was so poor. The two leave together, two lonely and inadequate men who have become friends. Cast
ReceptionAccording to MGM records, the film made a profit of $141,000.[2] Other adaptations1957 radio playThe BBC produced a radio version of the play in 1957 for the third program. Michael Hordern and David Kossoff played the parts. 1960 Australian television versionThe play was filmed for Australian TV in 1960 directed by Ray Menmuir and starring Reg Lye and Moray Powell.[3][4][5] QuotesMorgenhall: "Now you're the only case I've got, and the most difficult." The New York Times: "Charming, comic...robustly amusing." (quoted from the DVD cover) References1. ^The Times online archive 20/9/1962 page 2 2. ^{{Citation | title = The Eddie Mannix Ledger | publisher = Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study | place = Los Angeles}}. 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article51601583 |title=The P.M.G.'s private eye |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=27, |issue=37 |location=Australia, Australia |date=17 February 1960 |accessdate=22 May 2016 |page=68 |via=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^http://filmalert101.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/vale-raymond-menmuir-storry-walton-and.html 5. ^{{cite news|title=Courtroom for Two|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=25 January 1960|page=12}} External links
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