SidneyLumet of 12 Angry Men fame built another riveting Oscar nominated legal film in 1982 called The Verdict. Starring Paul Newman this could have been an
TheVerdict (1982) is not a good film. Watching classic movies, every once in a while you get a real dud that seems to be surviving on reputation. I just watched The Verdict for the first time yesterday, and I was so irritated that it never turned the corner into being a good movie that I needed to vent about it.
Althougha 21 Jan 1982 DV brief anticipated a 1 Feb 1982 start date, 12 Feb 1982 HR production charts confirmed that principal photography began a day later, (1982, see entry) and The Verdict, owning to the former film’s “controversial subject matter” possibly considered “inappropriate for the Christmas season.”