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Who composed the score for Anatomy of a Murder?
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Otto Preminger
Film director Otto Preminger, 1976.
The score for the 1959 film Anatomy of a Murder, directed by Otto Preminger, was composed by the renowned American jazz pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington. His innovative jazz score is widely considered a major asset to the film.123