Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

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Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Agatha Christie: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Agatha Christie ⇒ Witness for the Prosecution (the host's read). Adapted from a Christie short story then play; its formula made the twist guessable.
    “adapted from an Agatha Christie play”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:40:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Billy Wilder: 2 lines people ×2

  1. people (people): Witness for the Prosecution → Billy Wilder. Written and directed by Wilder, in the middle of his great run.
    “Written and directed by the great Billy Wilder”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:38:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

Agatha Christie: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Witness for the Prosecution → Agatha Christie. Adapted from a Christie short story then play; its formula made the twist guessable.
    “adapted from an Agatha Christie play”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:40:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Charles Laughton: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Charles Laughton → Witness for the Prosecution. Laughton sets the tempo for over-the-top lawyer performances.
    “setting the tempo for all great over the top prosecutorial kind of lawyer performances”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:40:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Psycho: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Witness for the Prosecution → Psycho. Both asked audiences not to spoil the twist; Witness did it in 1957.
    “please do not spoil the murder”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:42:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Some Like It Hot: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Witness for the Prosecution → Some Like It Hot. Wilder followed it with Some Like It Hot and The Apartment.
    “follows that up with some like it hot in the apartment”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:38:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)

Tyrone Power: 1 line career ×1

  1. career (career): Tyrone Power → Witness for the Prosecution. Last film Power completed before dying at 44.
    “This is the last film he completed”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:44:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (2)

  1. career (career): Witness for the Prosecution → Some Like It Hot. Wilder followed it with Some Like It Hot and The Apartment.
    “follows that up with some like it hot in the apartment”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:38:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Tyrone Power → Witness for the Prosecution. Last film Power completed before dying at 44.
    “This is the last film he completed”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:44:23 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

craft (2)

  1. craft (craft): Charles Laughton → Witness for the Prosecution. Laughton sets the tempo for over-the-top lawyer performances.
    “setting the tempo for all great over the top prosecutorial kind of lawyer performances”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:40:15 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Witness for the Prosecution → Witness for the Prosecution. Feels like a stage show, with only 3 or 4 settings.
    “the film feels like a stage show”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:44:34 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

industry (1)

  1. industry (industry): Witness for the Prosecution → Psycho. Both asked audiences not to spoil the twist; Witness did it in 1957.
    “please do not spoil the murder”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:42:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Witness for the Prosecution → Agatha Christie. Adapted from a Christie short story then play; its formula made the twist guessable.
    “adapted from an Agatha Christie play”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:40:52 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Witness for the Prosecution → Billy Wilder. Written and directed by Wilder, in the middle of his great run.
    “Written and directed by the great Billy Wilder”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:38:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.75 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Billy Wilder → Witness for the Prosecution. Box office number three is Wilder's courtroom drama with Charles Laughton as the prosecutor.
    “it's a Billy Wilder film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall (Ad-Free) · 1:49:34 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Witness for the Prosecution: Ends with a credit asking the audience not to spoil the twist, in 1957.
    “there is a credit sequence that's asking the audience to please not spoil the ending”
    The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:41:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.80 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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