"Marshall" (2017) is a biographical legal drama film that focuses on an early case in the career of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice. Set in 1941, the film follows Marshall (played by Chadwick Boseman) as he defends Joseph Spell (Sterling K. Brown), a black chauffeur accused of raping and attempting to murder his white employer, Eleanor Strubing (Kate Hudson).Marshall, working for the NAACP, partners with Sam Friedman (Josh Gad), a local insurance lawyer with n