Editing Anatomy of a Murder (section)

==Production==
[[File:2009-0618-UP-MarquetteCtyCourthouse.jpg|thumb|right|The Marquette County Courthouse was used for courthouse scenes.]]
Independently made,<ref name="five American touchstones">[https://jonathanrosenbaum.net/2024/03/local-color-five-american-touchstones/ Local Color: Five American Touchstones|Jonathan Rosenbaum]</ref> the film was shot in several locations in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan ([[Big Bay, Michigan|Big Bay]], [[Marquette, Michigan|Marquette]], [[Ishpeming, Michigan|Ishpeming]], and [[Michigamme, Michigan|Michigamme]]). Some scenes were filmed in the Thunder Bay Inn in Big Bay, one block from the Lumberjack Tavern, the site of the 1952 murder that inspired much of the novel.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.nmu.edu/voelker |title = John D. Voelker |publisher = [[Northern Michigan University]] |website = 50th Anniversary: Anatomy of a Murder |access-date = December 7, 2011 }}</ref> The scene of the train was captured at the Ishpeming train station with the arrival of the daily ''[[Peninsula 400]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Keyser |first=Lloyd A. |title=Chicago & North Western In Color |volume=3 |place=Scotch Plains, NJ |publisher=Morning Sun Books |date=2005 |isbn=978-1582481500 |page=16}}</ref>

The film was previewed on June 18, 1959, in Chicago,<ref name=Shaul2/> which ''Variety'' said was 21 days after filming had finished and a record for a big-budget film.<ref name=VarReview>{{cite news |work = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date = July 1, 1959 |title = Film Reviews: ''Anatomy of a Murder'' |page = 6 |url = http://www.archive.org/stream/variety215-1959-07#page/n5/mode/1up |access-date = May 19, 2019 |via = [[Archive.org]] }}</ref>  It had its first screening at the Butler Theater in Ishpeming and the Nordic Theater in Marquette on June 29, 1959.<ref name=Shaul2/> The world premiere for the film was held on July 1, 1959, at the United Artists Theater in Detroit.<ref>{{cite AV media |author = United Artists Press and Marketing |title = ''Anatomy of a Murder'' Premiere (1959) |url = http://www.ovguide.com/video/anatomy-of-a-murder-premiere-1959-922ca39ce10036ba0e116cc2092ccf3a |via = Online Video Guide |access-date = February 21, 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170907034335/https://www.ovguide.com/video/anatomy-of-a-murder-premiere-1959-922ca39ce10036ba0e116cc2092ccf3a |archive-date = September 7, 2017 |url-status = dead }}</ref>