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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

June 2012

"We've disposed of the gallows, but there is still that banana peel - somewhere - under somebody's foot."

Sir Wilfrid Robarts, played by Charles Laughton (left), gets his client acquitted of murder charges in Witness for the Prosecution (1957) but continues to puzzle over the facts of the case. Marlene Dietrich (right) plays the defendant's wife in the title role.


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