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Horgan senses such an opportunity when one of his own prosecutors, Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi) is found bludgeoned to death in her apartment one night after seemingly being raped and tied up. Feeling that the balance of his career as a prosecutor rests on this case, Horgan assigns Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford), his chief deputy and right hand man, to investigate it. Sabich, a married man who was actually obsessed with Polhemus after she terminated their secret affair, protests only mildly before accepting the assignment...
Conscientiousness may, indeed, be part of the problem. In converting the story of Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford), a public prosecutor forced by circumstantial evidence and local political imperatives to stand trial for the murder of Carolyn Polhemus (Greta Scacchi), an upper-slutty colleague, Pakula seems overawed by the book's critical and popular success. Whatever its other virtues, Presumed Innocent was basically a page turner; the movie is a slow burner...
Next Pakula had to give faces -- famous faces -- to Scott Turow's page people. Bonnie Bedelia plays Rusty Sabich's wife, Raul Julia his defense counsel, Brian Dennehy the prosecutor, Paul Winfield the judge, Greta Scacchi the luckless love. And as the accused, Pakula selected Harrison Ford, segueing handsomely from Star Wars and Indiana Jones hunkdom to acclaimed actor. The casting pleased Turow. "Ever since the book came out, people have been saying that I'm Rusty," he told Ford when they met. "I'm glad you're playing him. Now people will identify the character with...
...Garbo charisma was a creation as mysterious in its genesis as in its impact. She was born Greta Gustafsson to a poor Stockholm family, and at first she gave little hint of her unique hold on the camera. In early publicity films she giggles and models dresses or gorges on a cream puff. There is no beauty here, no acting ability. What could Mauritz Stiller, the pioneer Swedish director, have seen in this plump teenager? Maybe the future of movies. He changed her name to Garbo, cast her as the young female lead in his The Story of Gosta Berling...
SHOW BUSINESS: Remembering the real Greta Garbo...