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Michigan

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Based on the 1958 novel of the same name (and written by a Michigan Supreme Court Justice), Anatomy of a Murder was shot on location in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The inspiration for the book came from a 1952 murder, in which Lt. Coleman A. Peterson shot and killed Maurice Chenoweth in Big Bay, Michigan.

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