A courtroom meller played engagingly and building evenly to a surprising and arousing, albeit tricked-up, climax, Witness for the Prosecution ... attorney Charles Laughton, along with the audience ...

Witness for the Prosecution was reinvented as an intense yet entertaining story of lust and betrayal in his 1957 film version, starring Charles Laughton and Marlene Dietrich. It’s one of those ...

By Peter Hummers The management suggests that, for your friends who have not yet seen it, you will not divulge to anyone the secrets of the ending of ‘Witness for the Prosecution!’ And nor will ...

While Blaskovich has never seen the play on stage, “Witness for the Prosecution” is what made her a Christie fan. She saw the 1957 movie featuring Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Marlene ...

Charles Laughton is wonderful in a kind of prototype Rumpole role, an arrogantly pompous lawyer defending Tyrone Power who is charged with murdering an elderly widow. Fine performances all round ...

31 January 2025 marks 100 years since Agatha Christie's story Witness for the Prosecution – originally titled Traitor Hands – was first published. A century later and the acclaimed stage ...

The film not only plays to the strengths of Charles Laughton as a sly comedic ... out isn’t really his wife and is called as a witness for the prosecution — and whose evidence is quite likely ...