The Paradine Case
by Alfred Hitchcock
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Actor: Ann Todd, Charles Coburn, Charles Laughton, Ethel Barrymore, Gregory PeckDirector: Alfred Hitchcock
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 125 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Paradine Case
Movie Review: You can see that Hitchcock formula and well done too.
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie is very proud to be a David O. Selznick film and displays it proudly at the beginning.
This is one of those movies where you go "yeah yeah" I saw before. You are probably thinking of Richard Attenborough's " Trial and Error" (1962) or Billy Wilder's "Witness for the Prosecution" (1957). Much of this film is predictable and then again maybe not. Remember this is a 1947 film.
Rich old blind Mr. Paradine, of whom we never met, is found dead; is it suicide or is it murder? Soon Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) is accused of having motive and opportunity.
Assigned to defend Maddalena is Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense (Gregory Peck). Even with Mrs. Paradine's wild past and alluring continence, Anthony, a happily married man, is sure threat the butler (o.k. the valet) did it. We the viewers also want to help him, as it is obvious if it was not the Andre Latour, Paradine's Valet (a very young Louis Jourdan) than you know who will hang. Not only that but we find the valet to be quite devious.
A plus that gives this film added character is Charles Laughton as Judge Lord Thomas Horfield.
Trial and Error (aka The Dock Brief)
Witness For the Prosecution
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