Testimone d'accusa

Titolo originale: Witness for the Prosecution
Regia: Billy Wilder |
Anno: 1957
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Mistero Crime
Tag: based on novel or book | nurse | widow | cigarette | alibi | letter | trial | murder | lawyer | courtroom | murder mystery | tiki culture |
Cast: Tyrone Power | Marlene Dietrich | Charles Laughton | Elsa Lanchester | John Williams | Henry Daniell | Ian Wolfe | Torin Thatcher | Norma Varden | Una O'Connor | Francis Compton | Philip Tonge | Ruta Lee | Patrick Aherne | Walter Bacon | Eddie Baker | Benjie Bancroft | John Barton | Brandon Beach | George Blagoi | Arline Bletcher | Danny Borzage | Tex Brodus | George Bruggeman | George Calliga | Steve Carruthers | Albert Cavens | Oliver Cross | Harry Denny | Helen Dickson | Minta Durfee | Marjorie Eaton | Franklyn Farnum | Bess Flowers | Herschel Graham | Marion Gray | Stuart Hall | Art Howard | Michael Jeffers | Colin Kenny | Paul Kruger | Jeanne Lafayette | Wilbur Mack | Frank McLure | Ottola Nesmith | William H. O'Brien | J. Pat O'Malley | George Pelling | Fred Rapport | Jack Raine | Waclaw Rekwart | Leoda Richards | John Roy | Edna Smith | Scott Seaton | Cap Somers | Bert Stevens | Jeffrey Sayre | Norbert Schiller | Arthur Tovey | Ben Wright | Glen Walters | Joe Gilbert |

Vole è accusato di aver assassinato una ricca vedova. Il testamento dell'uccisa, steso pochi giorni prima della sua morte, costituisce erede di una notevole sostanza il presunto assassino. La situazione di Vole è resa ancora più delicata dall'atteggiamento ambiguo della moglie Christine, una tedesca, ch'egli, inglese, ha incontrato ad Amburgo ed ha sposato durante l'ultima guerra. Il caso di Vole interessa vivamente un celebre avvocato, sir Wilfred Roberts, il quale, convinto dell'innocenza dell'imputato, malgrado la sua età non più giovane e le sue precarle condizioni di salute, ne assume la difesa.

Frasi

Brogan-Moore: Chipper, isn't he? An hour ago, he h [...] D
Cockney Woman: I'll give ya somethin' to dream abo [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: Would you like a cigar? Pardon me. [ [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: [to Brogan-Moore] Oh, pardon, Mrs. Vo [...] D
Brogan-Moore: Touching isn't it? The way he counts [...] D
Leonard Vole: What are you looking for? Christine [...] D
Mr. Myers: I hope we are not to be deprived of the [...] D
Mayhew: She and her husband had lived abroad for m [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: I am constantly surprised that women' [...] D
Christine Vole: He is not my husband. Leonard and [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: Doctors! They've deprived me of every [...] D
Miss Plimsoll: I shall have a very serious talk wi [...] D
Christine Vole: Damn you. Damn you. Damn you! Damn [...] D
Miss Plimsoll: It's beddy-bye. We better go upstai [...] D
Christine Vole: It isn't even my letter paper! I w [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: I have done an unethical thing. I hav [...] D
Christine Vole: You think Mrs. French looked upon [...] D
Miss Plimsoll: Our nap! Sir Wilfrid! Our nap! Sir [...] D
Leonard Vole: But this is England, where I thought [...] D
Mrs. French: Do sit down and don't mind Janet, Mr. [...] D
Miss Plimsoll: Is there too much of a draught? Sho [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: Might as well get a bigger box of mor [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: Your husband loves you very much, doe [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: Aw, Miss Plimsoll, how yearning you l [...] D
Mrs. French: You know, maybe I'll take a glass of [...] D
Miss Plimsoll: Teeny weeny flight of steps, Sir Wi [...] D
Christine Vole: [while applying lipstick] What a w [...] D
Leonard Vole: [in Christine's bombed-out hovel] It [...] D
Christine Vole: [shortly after Christine is attack [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: [getting progressively more agitated] [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: Ah, Miss Plimsoll, how alluring you l [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: Blood is thicker than evidence. D
Miss Plimsoll: You know, I feel sorry for that nic [...] D
Janet Mackensie: Perhaps you can help me, your Lor [...] D
Christine Vole: Mr Mayhew described you as the cha [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: My Lord, may I also remind my learned [...] D
Miss Plimsoll: Wilfrid the Fox! That's what they c [...] D
[Miss Plimsoll discovers cigars hidden in Sir Wilf [...] D
Christine Vole: You are burning my nose. D
[last lines] Miss Plimsoll: [hands Sir Wilfrid hi [...] D
Miss Plimsoll: I almost married a lawyer once. I w [...] D
Brogan-Moore: Congratulations, here are your cigar [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: Give me a match. Leonard Vole: Sorry [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: I'd better take that thermos of cocoa [...] D
[the jury is back] Brogan-Moore: You're not worri [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: Kings, prime ministers, archbishops, [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: We've disposed of the gallows, but th [...] D
Sir Wilfrid: I could probably think better if you [...] D
Leonard Vole: How are you fixed for sugar? Christ [...] D
Miss Plimsoll: Sir Wilfrid. Sir Wilfrid! You're da [...] D
Bar Patron: Hey Fräulein, show us some legs! D