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Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times said, " After watching an endless succession of courtroom melodramas that have more or less transgressed the bounds of human reason and the rules of advocacy, it is cheering and fascinating to see one that hews magnificently to a line of dramatic but reasonable behavior and proper procedure in a court.

Such a one is Anatomy of a Murder, which opened at the Criterion and the Plaza yesterday.

It is the best courtroom melodrama this old judge has ever seen.

Outside of the fact that this drama gets a little tiring in spots — in its two hours and forty minutes, most of which is spent in court — it is well nigh flawless as a picture of an American court at work, of small-town American characters and of the average sordidness of crime.