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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Name: Witness for the Prosecution
Director: Billy Wilder
Genre: crime film, trial film
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 8.4

Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American legal mystery melodrama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, and Charles Laughton, with Elsa Lanchester and John Williams. The film, which has elements of bleak black comedy and film noir, is a courtroom drama set in the Old Bailey in London and is based on the 1953 play of the same title by Agatha Christie. The first film…

Directed by Billy Wilder · Shot by Russell Harlan · Cut by Daniel Mandell · Music by Matty Malneck · 116 min

Behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes: Witness for the Prosecution (Wilder, 1957) with Charles Laughton/Marlene Dietrich — Serious Feather · 14 min

Elsewhere

More by Billy Wilder

Mauvaise Graine — 1934
The Major and the Minor — 1942
Five Graves to Cairo — 1943
Double Indemnity — 1944
Death Mills — 1945
The Lost Weekend — 1945
A Foreign Affair — 1948
The Emperor Waltz — 1948
Sunset Boulevard — 1950
Ace in the Hole — 1951
Stalag 17 — 1953
Sabrina — 1954
The Seven Year Itch — 1955
The Spirit of St. Louis — 1957
Love in the Afternoon — 1957
Some Like It Hot — 1959
The Apartment — 1960
One, Two, Three — 1961
Irma la Douce — 1963
Kiss Me, Stupid — 1964
The Fortune Cookie — 1966
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes — 1970
Avanti! — 1972
The Front Page — 1974
Fedora — 1978
Buddy Buddy — 1981

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