Review – Witness for the Prosecution

If you love ever-so-British courtroom drama, you’re in the right place here. Charles Laughton plays a curmudgeonly defense lawyer who takes on an apparently impossible case. His client (Tyrone Power in his last movie) seems like he might have an outside chance until his wife (Marlene Dietrich) takes the stand. But the twists keep a comin’ just as one might expect from an Agatha Christie story. Though this isn’t my usual cup of tea, I got a kick out of it. If nothing else it was fun to watch Laughton fussing with his nurse (played by the actor’s wife, Elsa Lanchester). Mildly amusing