Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
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.
- based on novel or book
- nurse
- widow
- cigarette
- letter
- trial
- murder
- lawyer
- courtroom
- murder mystery
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Tyrone Power
Leonard Vole
Marlene Dietrich
Christine
Charles Laughton
Sir Wilfrid
Elsa Lanchester
Miss Plimsoll
- John Williams — Brogan-Moore
- Henry Daniell — Mayhew
- Ian Wolfe — Carter
- Torin Thatcher — Mr. Myers
- Norma Varden — Mrs. French
- Una O'Connor — Janet
- Francis Compton — Judge
- Philip Tonge — Inspector Hearne
- Ruta Lee — Diana
- Patrick Aherne — Court Officer (uncredited)
- Walter Bacon — Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Directed
- Billy Wilder
- Written
- Harry Kurnitz, Billy Wilder
Production
- Studio
- Edward Small Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
