Witness for the Prosecution
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 22, 2014
- Originally Released: 1957
- Label: KL Studios Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich & Charles Laughton | |
Performer: | Elsa Lanchester, Henry Daniell, Ian Wolfe, Torin Thatcher, Norma Varden, Una O'Connor, Philip Tonge & Ruta Lee | |
Directed by | Billy Wilder | |
Edited by | Daniel Mandell | |
Screenplay by | Billy Wilder & Harry Kurnitz | |
Original story by | Agatha Christie | |
Composition by | Matty Malneck | |
Art Direction by | Alexandre Trauner | |
Produced by | Arthur Hornblow, Jr. | |
Director of Photography: | Russell Harlan |
Entertainment Reviews:
A courtroom meller played engagingly and building evenly to a surprising and arousing, albeit tricked-up, climax...
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Variety
Rating: 4.5/5 --
And the air in the courtroom fairly crackles with emotional electricity, until that staggering surprise in the last reel.
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New York Times
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Wilder's adaptation is guilty of being absolutely marvelous.
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Film4
His theatrical mise-en-scene -- his proscenium framing -- serves the material well, as does Charles Laughton's bombastic portrayal of the defense attorney.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Every time the story strays from Sir Wilfrid, the interest level goes down a notch. Fortunately for the viewer, it doesn't get away from him very long at any point.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 5/5 --
[Marlene Dietrich] was never better than she is here.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Witness For The Prosecution has the pace and patience of live theater, but not the look. Wilder doesn't get overly flashy with camera moves and angles, but he does shift positioning subtly and effectively.
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Product Description:
Charles Laughton stars as barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts in Billy Wilder's screen version of Agatha Christie's enormously successful stage adaptation of her original story. Although the ailing attorney has been advised by his doctors to cease and desist from the practice of law, his interest is piqued when solicitor Mayhew (Henry Daniell) asks him to take the case of murderer suspect Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power). After evidence that he stood to gain financially from the victim's death comes to light, the man is indicted. Robarts, nonetheless, agrees to defend Vole, convinced as he is of his innocence. But the case becomes even more of an uphill battle when the defendant's supposedly loving wife Christine (Marlene Dietrich) decides to testify as a witness for the prosecution. Wilder expanded Christie's play, creating the role of Robarts' housekeeper Miss Plimsoll (played by Laughton's actual wife Elsa Lanchester), whose badinage with her employer provides a comic counterpoint to the film's melodrama. Bravura performances by Dietrich and Laughton fuel the entertaining courtroom drama, which also features fine work by Tyrone Power in his last screen appearance.
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- Sales Rank: 115,027
- UPC: 738329132521
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