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1957 • 116 min • Drama · Mystery · Crime

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Best from age 10
94
Movie Knight Score
1738 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 5 · 65%
  • 82 Audience · 1733 · 35%

Un avocat âgé et souffrant accepte une affaire de meurtre complexe impliquant un charmant suspect accusé d'avoir tué une riche mondaine. Les rebondissements du procès, y compris les témoignages inattendus, tiennent tout le monde en haleine jusqu'à la toute fin.

Violence & peril
2/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
3/10
Romance & sensuality
1/10
Scary moments
3/10

Heads up

  • Un meurtre est au centre de l'intrigue
  • Des scènes de tabac et d'alcool
  • Drame judiciaire intense

What it models well

  • La quête de justice
  • La résolution de problèmes astucieuse
  • Fidélité à ses convictions

Talk about it after

  • Le système judiciaire et ses complexités
  • La tromperie et les motivations cachées
  • L'importance de la vérité

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Top billed cast

Director: Billy Wilder • Crew: Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz

Trailers & clips

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Reviewer notes

Recommended

**Witness for the Prosecution (1957)** _Directed by Billy Wilder_ Billy Wilder's adaptation of Agatha Christie's courtroom drama is superbly crafted entertainment, a masterclass in pacing, performance, and the art of building suspense around a trial. Charles Laughton is phenomenal as Sir Wilfrid Robarts, the barrister defending Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) against murder charges.…

Recommended

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.…

Recommended

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 when Vole's seemingly loving wife Christine turns up to testify against the defendant.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

**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_.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

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

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Details

TMDB audience
8.2/10 (1,733)
Age rating
NR
Status
Released
Budget
$3,000,000
Box office
$9,000,000

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