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Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

8.2/ 10

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1,651

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1957

Release Year

116 min

Runtime

Drama
Mystery
Crime

Overview

An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.

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Keywords

based on novel or book
nurse
widow
cigarette
letter
trial
murder
lawyer
courtroom
murder mystery
tiki culture
anxious
embarrassed

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Reviews(4)

8.8avg rating
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Andres Gomez

@tanty

November 26, 2012

8
8/10

Great thriller with superb classical interpretations. The plot moves sometimes too lazily.

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Shreyance Parakh

@shiri4frnz

May 4, 2017

10
10/10

**Why don't they make THESE movies anymore?** Apart from being a **GREAT** courtroom drama_(which some people don't think this movie is)_, this movie is so much **FUN** and **ENTERTAINING** to watch.Especially because of the characters of _Charles Laughton_ and _Elsa Lanchester_. But _Tyrone Powe

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John Chard

John Chard

October 1, 2019

9
9/10

I'm constantly surprised that women's hats don't provoke more murders. Leonard Steven Vole finds himself on trial for the murder of a wealthy widow from whom he has inherited a fortune. Top barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts takes up the defendants case, but he, along with everyone else, is stunned wh

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

November 3, 2022

8
8/10

I might be asking for trouble here, but did Charles Laughton ever actually make a bad film? He leads this one as the brilliant but curmudgeonly barrister "Sir Wildred Robarts" with oodles of charisma and style. Marlene Dietrich portrays the evil, manipulative "Christine Vole" marvellously and even T

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