The Paradine Case (1947)

 

 

A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.

 

Superb courtroom drama with an excellent cast; Hitchcock manages to set the characters' moral ambiguities as the plot's pacemaker.


On renewed view: it's bit pedestrian in pace.


Halliwell**: "A stodgy and old-fashioned script is given gleaming treatment; this and the acting make it seem better thirty years later than it did on release."

Maltin**1/2: "Talk, talk, talk in complicated, stagey courtroomdrama...Below par for Hollywood..."