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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Witness for the prosecution (Motion picture)

Title:

Witness for the prosecution / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Edward Small presents ; an Arthur Hornblow production ; screen play by Billy Wilder and Harry Kurnitz ; adaptation by Larry Marcus ; produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr. ; directed by Billy Wilder.

Publisher, Date:

[Los Angeles, CA?] : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2014]

New York, NY : Kino Lorber

Description:

1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married lover is accused of the crime. The lawyer defending him is in ill health and his only hope for acquittal is the testimony of the accused's wife, proving his alibi. However, she has some secrets of her own to reveal.

Target Audience Note:

Unrated.

Series:

KL Studio classics

KL studio classics.

Subjects:

Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 -- Film adaptations.

Murder -- Investigation -- Drama.

Legal drama.

Spouses -- Drama.

Genre:

Detective and mystery films.

Legal films.

Film adaptations.

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Wilder, Billy, 1906-2002, film director, screenwriter.

Hornblow, Arthur, Jr., 1893-1976, film producer.

Kurnitz, Harry, screenwriter.

Marcus, Larry, 1917-2001, screenwriter.

Small, Edward, 1891-1977, presenter.

Power, Tyrone, 1914-1958, actor.

Dietrich, Marlene, actor.

Laughton, Charles, 1899-1962, actor.

Lanchester, Elsa, 1902-1986, actor.

O'Connor, Una, 1880-1959, actor.

Williams, John, 1903-1983, actor.

Daniell, Henry, 1894-1963, actor.

Thatcher, Torin, 1905-1981, actor.

Tonge, Philip, 1897-1959, actor.

Wolfe, Ian, 1896-1992, actor.

Compton, Francis, 1885-1964, actor.

Harlan, Russell, 1903-1974, director of photography.

Mandell, Daniel, editor of moving image work.

Malneck, Matty, composer (expression)

Motion picture adaptation of (work): Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Witness for the prosecution.

Edward Small Productions, Inc., presenter, production company.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, production company.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., publisher.

Kino Lorber, Inc., distributor.

Notes:

Wide screen (1.66:1).

Originally released as a motion picture in 1957.

From the story and stage play by Agatha Christie.

Special features: Billy Wilder discussing Witness for the Prosecution with Volker Schlöndorff (in German and English with English subtitles); original theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Russell Harlan ; editor, Daniel Mandell ; music, Matty Malneck.

Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Una O'Connor, John Williams, Henry Daniell, Torin Thatcher, Philip Tonge, Ian Wolfe, Francis Compton.

DVD video; NTSC; region 1; Dolby digital stereo.

For private home use only.

In German and English with English subtitles.

ISBN:

9786315533662

6315533663

Publisher Number:

K1325

K26438

Other Number:

881251369

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

1045883

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Witness