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starring: Gregory Peck
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301800976
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 6301800974
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: January 01, 1998
Sales Rank: 17123
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1948
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This minor 1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock beats a familiar Hitchcockian drum: an attorney (Gregory Peck), in love with the client (Alida Valli) he is defending on a murder charge, implicates himself in her guilt by trying to put the blame on another man. The no-one-is-innocent theme may be consistent with Hitchcock's best films and worldview, but this is one of the movies that got away from his crucial passion for the plastic side of creative directing. Stuck in a courtroom for much of the story, the film is fit to burst with possibility but is pinned down like a freshly caught butterfly in someone's airless collection. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Alida Valli & Gregory Peck, beauty, brilliant talent in a perfect showcase.
Alida Valli made very few American films, and it is a loss to our history. This star known best for her work in "Miracle of the Bells" (the story of a brilliant actress who plays Joan of Arc, and then dies with that being her only film), is not just a striking beauty. Unlike many of the glamourous, beautiful stars of the 40s, she shares with us a complex and intelligent internal life. We know that we will only know 10% of what is going on in her head, but we see the wheels turning through ... Read More
Rating: - Overdue Recognition
Alfred Hitchcock's THE PARADINE CASE is an interesting film from this director. On the surface it appears to be about a courtroom murder case where the accused Misses Paradine (Alida Valli) is defended by barrister (Gregory Peck) who becomes infatuated by here statuesque beauty and in doing so undermines his marriage to Ann Todd. Valli is accused of murdering her husband who we never see in person but only in a portrait. We never actually see the murder on screen. We must rely on the testimony of ... Read More
Rating: - UNDERATED HITCHCOCK CLASSIC
THE PARADINE CASE is an opulent production concerning the elegantly statuesque and enigmatic Mrs. Paradine placed on trial for the murder of her husband. Mrs. Paradine is played with subtle radiance by Alida Valli who embodies the alluring vision of pulchritude that barrister Gregory Peck has created and fallen under the spell of. Gregory Peck's obsessive character is a forerunner to James Stewart's role in Hitchcock's VERTIGO. Obsessive behavior can be destructive as is seen in the relationship that ... Read More
Rating:  - Out of Sorts
Alfred Hitchcock's THE PARADINE CASE is an interesting film from this director. It is more important for its shortcomings and specifically why it truly doesn't seem to work as a successful piece of filmmaking. I have actually viewed this film several times and when compared to Hitchcock's impressive output of films during the decade of the 1950s it may be labeled as being "out of sorts." I think much of this may be attributed to producer David O. Selznick's screenplay and overbearing intrusiveness into ... Read More
Rating: - Valli Victorious
Alida Valli didn't make very many pictures in the USA, but the ones she did are without exception worth seeing.
In Italy, of course, she is as important to the indigenous cinema as Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida put together. But here is the USA, she starred in a mere handful of pictures, and we remember her mainly via her connection to David Selznick, for whom she made THE THIRD MAN and THE PARADINE CASE. THE MIRACLE OF THE BELLS and WALK SOFTLY, STRANGER are also worth seeing. In THE ... Read More
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