On Mon, 25 Jul 1994 18:38:00 CST Robinson, Marlyn said: >I would like to know, absolutely off the top of your head(s), what >movies come to mind when you think of lawyers? If you had to think >specifically of corrupt, manipulative, sleazy mouthpieces, what would you >come up with? I guess this survey doesn't exactly pretend to be statistically sound or anything other than self-fulfilling. "Absolutely off the top of [my] head(s)," when I think of movie lawyers, I tend less to thing of recent roles, and more to remember characters in classical Hollywood cinema. One who surfaced in memory immediately is "jackleg lawyer" Abe in Young Mr. Lincoln. The other case that arose is Anatomy of a Murder, which pits the (deceptively, of course) laid-back, fly-tying defence attorney played by James Stewart against the more aggressive, urban prosecutor played by George C. Scott. (There's also the sidekick of Pauly, the Stewart character, played by Arthur O'Connell.) I'm not sure why these figures rise more vividly than Paul Newman in The Verdict, say, but they do. And I'm not sure if these suggestions of lawyers who are other than venal, unscrupulous, power-grubbing slime skews the survey, but there you are. Blaine Allan [log in to unmask] Film Studies Queen's University Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 3N6