Trivia / ...And Justice for All

• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: Kirkland's big line in his courtroom blowup ("The whole trial is out of order!") is frequently misquoted as "The whole system is out of order!"
  • It's also often worded as "The whole damn court's out of order!"
  • The whole quote is often misquoted as "I'm out of order? You're out of order! This whole courtroom is out of order!" It's quoted this way by Joey in Friends.
• Creator Couple: The picture was the first produced screenplay of husband and wife writing of team of Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson.
• Looping Lines: During post-production, dubbing for Al Pacino was looped during the daytime with Pacino appearing on stage in Richard III at night.
• Method Acting: On and off the set, Al Pacino was seen frequently being "in character" due to his method acting, something to which he had been a student of under co-actor Lee Strasberg. At meal breaks, Pacino would be known to call Strasberg by his character name of Grandpa and once when asked about a contract by someone working on the film, Pacino started to assess it for him legally even though Pacino is an actor not a lawyer.
• One-Take Wonder: The closing courtroom scene was filmed on the first take.
• Playing Against Type: Seeing John Forsythe, The Voice of the benevolent, very kind and likable "Charlie" from Charlie's Angels, as a monstrous and despicable Hanging Judge can be quite a shocker, especially around the decade were both this film and the famed TV show were present.
• Real Life Writes the Hairstyle: Jeffrey Tambor had to wear a wig for several scenes. Scenes seen later in the film show him bald, and as scenes for movies are not usually shot in sequence, Tambor had shaved his head for the bald scenes, and so had to wear a wig.
• Throw It In!: Al Pacino frequently ad libbed and improvised. He liked to do this because he was slow learning lines as well as to be spontaneous. This however can interfere with another actor's performance. Reportedly, Pacino's mentor, Lee Strasberg, said "Al, learn your lines, dollink!" Pacino years later recognized that this was good advice.

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