Witness for the Prosecution
Witness for the Prosecution
“ The most electrifying entertainment of our time! ”
CINEMA1957-12-17
RegionUS
Runtime116 MIN
Media TypeMovie
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Billy Wilder adapts Agatha Christie with unmatched wit, blistering courtroom banter, and cinema’s greatest series of twist reveals.”
“Billy Wilder’s immortal courtroom masterpiece delivering cinema’s most brilliant double-twist.”
Storyline
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
DIRECTOR / Director
Billy Wilder
KEYWORDS
based on novel or booknursewidowcigarettelettertrialmurderlawyercourtroommurder mysterytiki culturesuspicious
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