Film · Crime, Drama, Mystery
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
★ 8.2 · 1,799 votes1 h 56 minCrime, Drama, Mystery1957
The most electrifying entertainment of our time!
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writers
- Agatha Christie, Lawrence B. Marcus, Billy Wilder
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- December 17, 1957
Cast
Tyrone PowerLeonard Vole
Marlene DietrichChristine
Charles LaughtonSir Wilfrid
Elsa LanchesterMiss Plimsoll
John WilliamsBrogan-Moore
Henry DaniellMayhew
Ian WolfeCarter
Torin ThatcherMr. Myers
Norma VardenMrs. French
Una O'ConnorJanet
Francis ComptonJudge
Philip TongeInspector Hearne
Ruta LeeDiana
Patrick AherneCourt Officer (uncredited)- Walter BaconBar Patron (uncredited)
Eddie BakerCourtroom Spectator (uncredited)- Benjie BancroftCourtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- John BartonCourtroom Spectator (uncredited)
- Brandon BeachJuror (uncredited)
George BlagoiJuror (uncredited)
