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Saturday, September 1, 2018
















     The Paradine Case
1947  NR  DRAMA  1h 54min
CAST— Gregory Peck, (Alida) Valli, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan, Leo G. Carroll, John Williams
MUSIC— Franz Waxman  DIRECTOR— Alfred Hitchcock  BASED ON— The Paradine Case (novel), by Robert Smythe Hichens

     A somewhat substandard Hitchcock film, this legal drama unfolds haltingly. A beautiful yet mysterious young widow is accused of murdering her blind husband by poison. A brilliant attorney is assigned the case, and before you know it he begins to fall in love with her. All of London is abuzz with gossip of the two and their dealings behind closed doors. The lawyer is tortured day in and day out by his desire for his client, continuing until the trial itself, an emotional whirlwind. This soap opera crawls along until culminating in a confession that is all too predictable. For Hitchcock freaks only.
OUR RATING— **

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