The book and movie entertainment world can muster quite a list of courtroom dramas. Professor Wikipedia testifies that a “trial film’ is a subgenre of the legal-courtroom drama that encompasses films that are centered on a civil or criminal trial, typically a trial by jury.” Such a list would take up this whole essay. Kill…
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The Anderson Tapes – Book to Movie
The Anderson Tapes was the debut crime fiction novel by Lawrence Sanders, published back in 1970. The story is about the complicated burglary of an upscale New York apartment building by a gang of ex-convicts, unaware that the operation is under wiretap and camera surveillance by various agencies. The same year, the book was produced…