Paradine Case
 | 1947Starring: Patrick Aherne, Ethel Barrymore, Leo G. Carroll, Charles Coburn, Elspeth Dudgeon Starz / Anchor Bay, VHS Tape Customer Rating: 16 reviews Recommend This product is currently not available and cannot be purchased. It means that we have no merchant offers for this product at the moment or it was discontinued by the manufacturer. |
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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
Title: Paradine Case (1947)
Sales Rank: 13778 in VHS
Actor: Patrick Aherne, Ethel Barrymore, Leo G. Carroll, Charles Coburn, Elspeth Dudgeon
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language)
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Running Time: 116 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.32 x 4.19 x 1.12 inches, 0.38 pounds
- 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,… More reviews
- 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… More reviews
- 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… More reviews
- 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… More reviews
- 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… More reviews
