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The Paradine Case (1947)

Crime | 110 minutes
3,13 178 votes

Genre: Crime / Drama

Duration: 110 minuten

Alternative title: De Zaak Paradine

Country: United States

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Stars: Gregory Peck, Alida Valli and Ann Todd

IMDb score: 6,5 (12.897)

Releasedate: 31 December 1947

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The Paradine Case plot

"The dramatic case of a beautiful woman whose trial for murder held the nation spellbound."

Maddalena Paradine is arrested for murdering her rich, blind husband. A young, ambitious lawyer takes on the case. He soon becomes very fascinated by Mrs. Paradine and driven by personal curiosity, he sets out to investigate.

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Anthony Keane

Gay Keane

Mrs. Paradine

Judge Lord Thomas Horfield

Sir Simon Flaquer

Lady Sophie Horfield

Andre Latour

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Roger Thornhill

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Actually just an average melodrama about the love life of a lawyer, which, however, distinguishes itself from the countless peers by the impressive amount of acting guns, by the intriguing variation on the has-he/she-it-is-or- not-done-plot and by the last name on the title reel. Unfortunately, as far as I'm concerned, the culprit announced itself quite quickly, the plot fizzled out, and apart from the great professionalism there was little or nothing to suggest who filled the director's chair - and that has everything to do with it, of course that this was a project foisted on Hitchcock by producer (and here also screenwriter) David O. Selznick, including a cast that Hitch was not entirely happy with.
The largely positive reports and fairly high ratings here surprise me, as most professional critics and biographers consider this one of Hitchcock's weakest films. An exception is the Ghent critic Frans Sierens in his nice book Alfred Hitchcock (Bruna 1963) that you sometimes see in second-hand bookshops. In this film he discovers a fatalistic series of passions that almost forms a chain of victims: Lady Sophie Horfield for her husband, Judge Lord Thomas Horfield for Gay Keane, Gay Keane for her husband, Anthony Keane for Mrs Paradine, Mrs Paradine for Latour, Latour for Mr. Paradine, and Mr. Paradine perhaps for his wife... "the human being in Hitchcock is powerless against the power of feeling, so powerless that it crushes him."

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mrklm

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Hitchcock made this film to get out of his contract with David O. Selznick. There was disagreement about the script and the main characters: Hitchcock had in mind Laurence Olivier and Greta Garbo and thought Lous Jourdan completely unsuitable as the stable boy who plays a key role in the trial about a widow [Alida Valli] and her lawyer [Gregory Peck] who is dazzled by her beauty. Chatty drama with a juicy supporting role for Charles Laughton as the judge and a few visual inventions - including the introduction of Jourdan - but still one of Alfred Hitchcock's weaker films.

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Bobbejaantje

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The realization of this production has had quite a few feet in the earth, but in the end it certainly didn't land badly with this cast and director at the helm. From start to finish I was captivated by this drama spiced up by all sorts of ambiguous relationships. No bling bling, but above all solid acting performances. Leading roles Gregory Peck and Alida Valli do a great job, but it actually applies to everyone. In the courtroom scenes in particular, I always looked forward to the interventions of Judge Charles Laughton. Although the emphasis is on dialogue, the master has also put his signature with some beautiful camera movements and certain photography.

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