The Paradine Case (1947)

Gregory Peck
Ann Todd



Genres
Drama Courtroom

Director
Alfred Hitchcock

Writers
Robert Hichens (novel)
David O. Selznick

Composer
Franz Waxman

Director of Photography
Lee Garmes

Review
Talk, Talk, Talk in complicated, stagy courtroom drama, set in England. Below par for Hitchcock, producer David O. Selznick also wrote the script. Originally 132 minutes, then cut to 125 minutes and finally 116 minutes.

Trivia
An exact replica of the Old Bailey courtroom was constructed for the court scenes.

Cameo

Hitchcock makes his cameo appearance getting off a train at the Cumberland station carrying a cello (see also his cameo in Strangers on a Train).

Ethel Barrymore
Lady Horfield
Leo G. Carroll
Council for the Prosecution
Charles Coburn
Sir Simon Flaquer
Louis Jourdan
Andre Latour
Charles Laughton
Lord Horfield
Gregory Peck
Anthony Keane
Ann Todd
Gay Keane
Alida Valli
Mrs. Paradine
Isobel Elsom
John Goldsworthy
Colin Hunter
Patrick Aherne
Lester Matthews
John Williams

 



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