The Paradine Case (1947)

Time Without Pity (1957)

The day before a man is to be executed, his alcoholic father shows up to try to prove his innocence.

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..."

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.

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..."

Things to Come (1936)

 

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Taste of Fear (1961)

A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.