Billy Wilder is my favorite screenwriter/director in the history of moving pictures. Witness For The Prosecution isn't top tier Wilder but it is entertaining and has thematic elements found in his great films.
More often than not he has a ruthless callous character or two driving the story.
Thanks to Agatha Christie's plot we think we know who has the cold heart until the twist ending. There is plenty of drama in Witness with a decent mixture of Wilder humor that another director may not have incorporated.
Tyrone Powers was too old for The Sun Also Rises and he's too old for his part in Witness, but he does a nice job of sweating during his trial. Sadly, in real life, he maybe should have had a nurse like Elsa Lanchester attending to him.
More often than not he has a ruthless callous character or two driving the story.
Thanks to Agatha Christie's plot we think we know who has the cold heart until the twist ending. There is plenty of drama in Witness with a decent mixture of Wilder humor that another director may not have incorporated.
Tyrone Powers was too old for The Sun Also Rises and he's too old for his part in Witness, but he does a nice job of sweating during his trial. Sadly, in real life, he maybe should have had a nurse like Elsa Lanchester attending to him.