actual trial
I watched this last night and was wondering something, how much if any of the actual transcripts of the trial was used in the dialogue or was this completely fictionalized by the writer? Anybody know?
share Parts of the dialogue (Lawson's opening comes to mind) were lifted almost verbatim from the trial transcript. There may have been others in which the particulars were borrowed as well. "Feldenstein" had a real counterpart, as did Janning.
(The quote Rolfe mentions from Oliver Wendell Holmes is taken from Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927))