Billy Wilder’s Europe
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WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
(1957, United States) Directed by Billy Wilder
Adapted from the hit play by Agatha Christie, Witness for the Prosecution is a suspenseful courtroom melodrama infused with Wilder’s biting wit. Charles Laughton stars as a wily British barrister defending Tyrone Power in a murder trial. Marlene Dietrich plays Power’s cold-hearted wife who has turned against her husband to become the titular “witness for the prosecution.”
Screenwriter: Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz, Larry Marcus. Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester. 35mm, 116 min.
