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Film · 1957 · Legal drama
Witness for the Prosecution
Directed by Billy Wilder
1957
★ 5.8 editorial score
The closing credits ask the audience not to reveal the ending, and audiences mostly obeyed: Wilder turns an Agatha Christie courtroom into a comedy about a barrister who is supposed to be resting.
“For a courtroom melodrama pegged to a single plot device, the Arthur Hornblow Jr. film production of the Agatha Christie play "Witness for the Prosecution" comes off extraordinarily well. This results mainly from Billy Wilder's splendid staging of some splintering courtroom scenes and a first-rate theatrical performance by Charles Laughton in the defense-attorney role.”
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1957Depicts 1950s
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