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by George_Chabot  in Movies,  - Top 50, Mar 04 '07
Pros: First class in all respects
Cons: None I could see
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Billy Wilder directed lots of great movies, probably the most diverse set of great movies of any director. He did excellent film noir, drama, courtroom, war, and comedy. Although he was not as prolific as ...
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by tbrown - Top 500, Jun 03 '01
Pros: acting of Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich, plot twists and surprise ending
Cons: none
One of the classic courtroom dramas of all time, Witness for the Prosecution stars an ensemble of some of Hollywood's best. Charles Laughton stars as Sir Wilfrid Robarts, an ailing London barrister who is recovering from a heart attack....
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by Carrathon , Feb 03 '07
Pros: Acting, plot, suspense, surprise ending
Cons: No red herrings
Some films burn like embers in the memories of their viewers, their fiery power never quite extinguished, always able to be rekindled by a casual conversation, or brought to full blaze by a second viewing. Such a film is the 1957 courtroom drama ...
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by Grouch - Top 200, Jan 30 '07
Pros: Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, and Una O'Connor all give sharp, witty performances
Cons: Marlene Dietrich is good, but not as great as she thinks
If ever there was a torrential force of energy on the silver screen, Charles Laughton was it in 1957’s Witness for the Prosecution. The portly, pudgy British actor moves like a drop of water on a hot skillet, dominating every scene he’s in (and ...
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by Redlass - Top 500, Mar 31 '00
Pros: Tight scripting of suspenseful mystery
Cons: Film downplayed some good characters while adding unnecessary ones
Agatha Christie would have been pleased with Billy Wilder’s adaptation of her play Witness for the Prosecution. She was a big believer in adapting a story to its medium. Her first venture into playwrighting was a response to the frustration she...
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by rmurray847 , Jun 28 '08
Pros: Great plot and juicy performances from some movie giants.
Cons: Sure, it feels a little old-fashioned...but that's EASY to look past.
Seriously one of the great courtroom dramas of all time. A taut, unpredictable mystery...one of Agatha Christie's finest twists, and she was the master of the unguessable ending. Accompanied by terrific characters (all colorful and over the top, but ...
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by ebrown2 , Sep 24 '00
Pros: A cast you couldn't buy these days for love or money, literate script-writing and direction, a truly devious plot twist or two plus quite a few laughs
Cons: A rather melodramatic style of acting, plus a potentially pat ending
It is a sad fact that the producers of a recent film thriller (one involving a flying cow and mandatory sunglass wearing during tornado-chasing) claimed that they could either have a good script or bombastic special effects, but not both. I am happy to...
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by BrianKoller - Top 50, Apr 03 '00
Pros: humor, script, cast, sets
Cons: campy performances, revelation of plot twists
No director and writer had greater commercial and critical success during the 1950s than Billy Wilder. (Wilder's two best films were from the 1940s, however: Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend.) While Hitchcock received only one...
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by walteradamson , Sep 14 '99
Pros: A classic film with a classic cast and a plot to die for
Cons: No cons to my way of thinking....
Surely as clever a plot as a movie could ever have, after all, it is based upon a play by Agatha Christie. The movie is built around superb performances by Charles Laughton, and Marlene Dietrich, the former as a sickly old Barrister, and the latter as...
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