SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Lee Eisenberg "The Paradine Case" isn't Alfred Hitchcock's best movie by any stretch but still worth seeing. It probably would've been more believable had they cast an actual English person in Gregory Peck's role. The best scenes are of course the ones in the courtroom. The suspense really builds in those scenes. The only scene that I saw as having a double meaning was the scene where Keane goes to the estate and meets Latour for the first time. Latour's face is obscured, as if to imply that there's something unknown about him. But without a doubt, the last twenty minutes are what truly make the movie.In the end, it's OK not great. Given the high standards that we place on Hitch, it's understandable that not every one of his movies will be a masterpiece ("The Birds" is my favorite of his movies). Still worth seeing.

Hitchcoc When your principle character loses his objectivity, one would think there is a failing in writing and production. But Hitchcock knew this going in. What he also knew is that Selznick, who couldn't keep his rich hands off this film, would be a roadblock. Apparently, this film was very expensive to make and more's the pity. Anyway, a sultry woman is accused of murdering her blind husband. Peck is given the case and must be her advocate. What's unfortunate is that he begins to fall for her, even though he has a wife on the sidelines who is totally aware of what is going on. I won't do spoilers but I will say that Peck's good faith calculations lead to some real complications, things that his own personal myopia disrupt his serious analysis of the case. While it may be a less successful Hitch, it's still pretty darned good.

tomsview There was always subtext in Alfred Hitchcock's films, but "The Paradine Case" has subtext to spare.Successful London barrister, Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck), takes the case of Anna Paradine (Alida Valli) who is charged with murdering Colonel Paradine, her rich, blind husband. Although happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his beautiful client and his judgment, his career and his marriage begin to unravel.On the surface this may have seemed like lesser Hitchcock; although sharply written there isn't much warmth in evidence. The edginess of the film comes in the uncomfortable way Keane obsesses over Mrs Paradine, which hurts his wife, Gay (Ann Todd). The casting of good-looking Louis Jordan is often cited as a weakness, but I think he was fine - Hitchcock and producer David O Selznick just hit a nerve with the whole thing.If ever there were two men who knew something about obsessing over beautiful women it was Selznick and Hitchcock.Selznick's adoration of his wife Jennifer Jones, beginning with cutting-in on her first marriage, is well known. Hitchcock famously obsessed over just about all of his leading ladies culminating in all that weird stuff with Tippi Hedren.Here, the main character's destructive obsession with a beautiful, duplicitous woman was a warm-up for Hitchcock's "Vertigo" made ten years later. The telling scene is when Keane first meets Mrs Paradine and observes that her blind husband didn't realise the sacrifice his wife had made in marrying him because he hadn't seen her - Anna Paradine knows she's got Anthony Keane hook, line and sinker.Although she wasn't one of his famous blondes, Hitchcock and cinematographer Lee Garmes went to town on her look. Alida Valli was stunning, and that haunting beauty was never captured more effectively than in this film.The cast is fabulous. If you are a Laughton fan this is one of his best. It's a delicious performance, but he is totally odious as Judge Tommy Horfield complete with cruel observations on the impermanence of beauty.This film is a class act from beginning to end and Franz Waxman's velvety score gives it a sumptuous quality.I think Hitchcock fans can watch his best films over and over; "Rear Window", "North by Northwest" and others - "The Paradine Case" is one I would add to the list.

rightwingisevil most of all, a very unnatural and again, very pretentious movie. the whole film just looked so badly scripted. watching it was like watching those characters on a staged theater. the poor dialog had forced every one in this film to act awkwardly and again, very pretentiously. peck's performance was one of the worst in his career. the young wife of the attorney already slept in a separate room. why all the couples in most of the films came out of that era were without any kids? why this specific director always wanted to show himself in all the films he directed as a passersby, a non-described person? and he walked out of the Cumberland train station this time. this film storyline was so flat and boring with a terrible scenario and plot, and the courtroom part was extremely boring too. there's nothing to be praised, no wonder it's been overlooked so far.