The Defender (TV-1957) STEVE MCQUEEN🍕 WILLIAM SHATNER

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Starring: Steve McQueen, William Shatner, Ralph Bellamy
Written by: Reginald Rose
Director: Robert Mulligan
🍕STUDIO ONE Season 9 Episodes 20 & 21🍕
In this gripping courtroom drama, a father-and-son legal team defends a young man accused of a murder he swears he did not commit. The elder lawyer, seasoned and pragmatic, approaches the case with cautious strategy, while his son, an idealistic young attorney, passionately believes in their client’s innocence.

TRIVIA: Studio One began as a CBS radio drama in the 1940s and was reborn as a television series in 1948. It became the longest-running one-hour dramatic anthology in television history!

[-Da-Boys]

Ha! Excellent.

I was a Criminal Trial Lawyer for a decade. I used this exact tactic in court. Won the case...twice (long story) with it. But in the end it landed me in jail for Contempt of Court for messing with the Judge's and Prosecutor's minds. Very funny, actually. I would definitely do it again, but I got massive hatred from half of the Defense Bar.

Just letting you know that this Courtroom Drama was accurate. Thanks for loading this up for us.

[sophiaselvaraj]

Awesome court drama.
Nice to see young Shatner.
All the actors have excelled.
Worth seeing ❤

[romanskjb]

Wow, William Shatner, Ralph Bellamy, Martin Balsam, Steve McQueen and Ed Asner. Quiet the cast. Never seen this one before. 🥤🍿🍿

[ronaldreddish]

What a gem!! 1957 black and white. No cussing. No special effects. No gratuitous sex and violence. Yet filled with raw human emotion and great acting and drama. Great cast.

[suev]

Thanks Pizza Flix. It’s always interesting to see great actors in their beginning roles. Who’d a thought Steve McQueen and William Shatner acting together.

[moreGraceNpeace]

PS. I'm Canadian.
So heartwarming to see our national treasure in one of his earliest roles. Bill Shatner is gem.

Thanks again PF ❤

[justpassnthru]

The only ads I wouldn't skip through! Great stuff.

[DeloresLandeis-kxfu]

Fantastic Find!! Thank you PF for an outstanding gem. 😊

[vikingz]

Excellent! What an amazing cast and a great script. Thank you!

[susannaude]

Very enjoyable. I like stories with a twist in the tail. Even the advertisements were enjoyable. Great to see Martin Balsam and Steve McQueen in action again.

[artistpres]

Wow! Excellent film, performances, direction and all done live

[Mamameya-ct]

Great flick with excellent young actors turning into excellent career actors. Steve is always intense. Tku for post.

[RS-xord]

Very, very good. A gem. McQueen in a totally different role, and shatner showing he is so much more than just Startrek. Thank you for bringing this to us, and showing the dubious nature of 'the law' to which we are all subjected.

[Joseph_Greco]

Ralph Bellamy was a great actor....Steve McQueen pure raw and Balsam reliable and excellent. Television's golden age of drama.

[asullivan]

& Shatner did an ( OK ) performance. Bellamy performed brilliantly-!!!🤗. Enjoyed the ( TV ) commercials.

[Capo]

As an ex AD man all I can state is, that those Westinghouse ads were terrific 👍.

Also ' If you wanna be sure...slogan was USP' '( Unique Selling Proposition'). Indeed.

This was an iconic lawsuit movie. Thank you for sharing. 👏

[simplesimon]

This was great. It had so many big names in it and an ending that was more complex than I expected. Seeing Ed Asner as an extra was a fun little Easter Egg too. According to IMDb it was the first year of his 64+ year career in acting. Great choice, PizzaFlix.

[ltkreg]

These early television shows are timeless, as relevant today as when they were first made. An excellant performance by a young Steve who I knew in the 70's/80's. Steve had a troubled childhood. I think his excellant perfomance here wasn't acting, he just had to relive the terrible things that happened to him when he was a boy. 🙂

[fd]

37:03 Don't ya just love the commercial for Westinghouse "BROADBAND TELEVISION" . Oh boy, how far we've come.

[nRetrospecto]

Excellent actors. Oscar worthy Cinematography. Totally classic early television show with later superstar actors.