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Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American legal mystery thriller film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, and Elsa Lanchester.
Leonard Vole is arrested for the murder of Emily French, a wealthy older woman. Unaware that he was a married man, Miss French made him her principal heir, casting suspicion on Leonard. When his wife, Romaine, agrees to testify, she does so not in Leonard's defence but as a witness for the prosecution.
Witness for the Prosecution: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester. A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
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Witness for the Prosecution | Rotten Tomatoes. Released Dec 21, 1957 1h 54m Crime Drama Mystery & Thriller. List. The affable Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) is being tried for the murder of a...
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Witness for the Prosecution, American courtroom-drama film, released in 1957, that was based on a short story and play by English writer Agatha Christie. The film, set in London, centres on Leonard Vole (played by Tyrone Power), who is accused of having murdered a wealthy widow.
A murder, brutal and bloodthirsty, has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and enormously rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heir.
Ailing barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts 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 Leonard Vole, a man being tried for the murder of a wealthy woman.
A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple's tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
Witness For The Prosecution (1957) When a wealthy widow is murdered, her married suitor (Tyrone Power) is accused of the crime. His only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife (Marlene Dietrich)...but his alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her own!
