Enter Vole’s wife, Christine (Marlene Dietrich), a femme fatale with secrets of her own and the result is a courtroom drama that leaves the audience guessing until the very final frame. It was the best play based on Agatha Christies books that Ive seen in a theatre. Vole has been accused of murdering a rich, older widow and all the evidence seems to suggest he is the man responsible, but Robarts isn’t so sure.
Francis Compton is a finely learned judge and Una OConnor is in for one great bit as a Scottish maid in the. His private nurse is adamant that rest and relaxation are key to his convalescence, but Robarts insists on taking on a new client, Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power in his last completed film role). Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution has been intriguing amateur sleuths since 1925 when she first penned the story in her short story Traitor’s Hands. Philip Tonge makes a shrewd police inspector. In 1957, Billy Wilder’s big-screen version was released, at the time the only film based on one of her stories that Christie actually liked.Ĭharles Laughton, fresh from the disappointing response to his sole directorial effort, The Night of the Hunter, stars as Sir Wilfrid Robarts, a masterful barrister recovering from a heart attack.
The latter began life as a short story before the author transformed it into a hugely successful stage play. Forty years after her death, adaptations of Christie’s work range from Kenneth Branagh’s recent all-star version of Murder on the Orient Express to last year’s Witness for the Prosecution miniseries shown on BBC1 over Christmas. Agatha Christie, the best-selling author in history, is undergoing something of a renaissance.
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