FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Witness for the Prosecution
Scores
- IMDb8.4/10as of 2026-02-18
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer100%as of 2024-08-14
- Rotten Tomatoes average8.5/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic76/100as of 2026-02-03
What it is
Witness for the Prosecution is a 1957 American legal mystery melodrama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, and Charles Laughton, with Elsa Lanchester and John Williams. The film, which has elements of bleak black comedy and film noir, is a courtroom drama set in the Old Bailey in London and is based on the 1953 play of the same title by Agatha Christie.
At a glance
- Genres
- Crime
- Original language
- English
Last synced · View on Wikidata
Catalogue facts and named scores are from Wikidata (CC0). The opening note, when present, is from Wikipedia. Posters, when present, come from Wikimedia Commons.