Several duo on the screen have such a popular place in the American Cinema by Paul Manumman and Robert Redford, something pretty great because they made only two films together. "Butch Casidi and Sundance Child" Sting also became a synonym for chemistry on the screen and the couple were good -owned friends, also living as neighbors in Connecticut. Unfortunately, a third collaboration, a "walk in the woods", was abandoned when Manumman died in 2008 (Redford will eventually star in the film opposite Nick Nolt). Perhaps surprising, the two legendary actors did not compete for many roles, but there was a time when Manumman stepped into a redfared section and earned an Oscar nomination for his efforts.

That role was Frank Galvin, an alcoholic who took over the Catholic Church in the "verdict" of Sidney Lummet, a tightened legal thriller based on the 1980 novel by Barry Reed of the same name. The duties of the script were handled by playwright David Memet, who has just shifted to the steam films with the steam of "Postman always rings twice". Several big names circulated the juicy central role, including William Holden, Dustin Hoffman and Carrie Grant, but Robert Redford came to call when the studio expressed dissatisfaction with Memet's script and ordered a re -writing from Jayei Prason Allen.

Driving high after winning his only competitive Oscar for "ordinary people", Redford had a lot of power and ordered additional changes from his elected director Jameseims Bridges, to mitigate the main character and make him more desired. Producers tired of the actor trying to turn Galvin into a "boyfriend" and his failure to appear in the room, not to mention a meeting with his regular associate Sydney Pollack behind his back after Bridges moved away from the project. After all, Redford got his marching orders and Paul Manumman was caught instead.

Sassi Boston's lawyer, Frank Galvin (Paul Manumman), is semi-over before he even gets his big case in the "verdict". Formerly an idealistic hotspot with a promising career in front of him, he is now a divorced alcoholic who shares his time to pamper funerals for clients and play pinball at his local bar instead of reading files with cases. His free fall is interrupted when his old mentor Mickey Morrisi (Jackec Warden) has pity and throws a case of medical negligence that is not dependent. Includes a young woman who has remained in a coma for negligence by two valued doctors at a Catholic hospital, and the Archbishop is happy to throw money on the matter to make him leave.

All you have to do is Galvin is to collect the check, take over his intersection and ease the lives of the patient's family. But the long -term sense of justice woke up and Galvin has decided to fight the case in court, leading the defense lawyer of the hospital, Ed Concanon (Jamesimes Mason) to mobilize his big legal team. Galvin quickly complains about his decision; Low confidence and confrontation with a biased judge, his Starwar witness disappears and the replacement is easily discredited. But in the big tradition of thrillers in the courtroom, Galvin shoots a surprised witness at the last minute - but will their testimony be enough to convince the jury?

Lummet has returned to the topic of justice throughout his career and the "verdict" is something of the accompanying part "12 angry men." In both films, it treats the legal system as a huge unwanted machine that is basically suitable for purpose, but its efficiency depends on the skill and motivations of those who pull the levers. Memet's scenario is far more nicely about the swing that money and power have over judicial judgments, however, setting up an understated story about the footer with Manumman in top form.

By taking over the director's chair, Paul Manumman read the two scenarios of the "verdict" and favored the more difficult version of David Memet. As a result, we got a mature and careful film built around Manumman's extraordinarily measured performance. The idol of the screen often did its most interesting job by showing the flaws of men, from irreversible heels like the title of "Chad" to cheerful sunlight Reggie Dunlop in "Shac-Haut", and he brought all his skill to play the dogs, the Divine. A smaller actor may rethink the part, but Manumman doesn't go for grandiose moments; He probably invests Galvin for years of fatigue and despair, making him a usual loser who even gets wins with a slight breath, as if every positive weight raises.

For all its beautiful qualities, Robert Redford was probably a better supermitwoman than an actor, and it is unthinkable that it will bring so many gravitations to the part. Indeed, given his efforts to remove the rough edges of the character, while he was briefly attached to the film, the "verdict" is likely to end up in a tone with him in the lead. Conversely, Manumman was far more confident in taking risks and relying in the more unpleasant aspects of the role, including the fight for the scene when Galvin angrily hit a treacherous lubee that reveals that he plays for the other team. It is quietly a thrilling turn from Manumman and he received his sixth Oscar nomination for Best Actor, losing him to Ben Kingsley in Gandhi. After the Academy of Honor Academy in 1986, he finally took home a golden statue to replay his role as "Fast Eddy" Phelson in "The color of money". A good performance, no doubt, but playing Frank Galvin was more credited.