The Dock Brief (1960)
- Directed by
- Raymond Menmuir, James Hill
- Genre
- comedy drama
- Country
- Australia, United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A hapless old barrister takes on his first murder case in decades. He prepares a defense for a meek man accused of killing his wife, but things don't go as either of them expects.
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What happens
The Dock Brief (US title Trial and Error; also known as A Case for the Jury) is a 1962 black-and-white British legal satire directed by James Hill, starring Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough, and based on the 1957 play The Dock Brief by John Mortimer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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