Witness for the Prosecution

Name: Witness for the Prosecution
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1957-12-17T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 8.211

About Witness for the Prosecution

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.

Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 crime mystery film directed by Billy Wilder. At 116 minutes long, it arrived in December 1957.

Its themes are widow, murder mystery, nurse, and trial. The story is adapted from a novel.

Tyrone Power stars as Leonard Vole, Marlene Dietrich as Christine, Charles Laughton as Sir Wilfrid, and Elsa Lanchester as Miss Plimsoll. The screenplay is by Billy Wilder and Harry Kurnitz. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads.

A Time to Kill, Anatomy of a Murder, and Presumed Innocent make useful companions to Witness for the Prosecution, all filed under courtroom, lawyer, and murder. TMDB voters put it at 8.2 out of 10 across 1,807 votes and it carries a NR rating.