Witness for the Prosecution

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Few days ago I watched the movie Witness for the Prosecution. What a masterpiece. It is a 1956 movie. Billy Wilder is the director. Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton are the main protagonists.

The plot of the movie is based on an Agatha Christie story. A barrister (Laughton) decides to defend an innocent looking man (Power). The man is accused of killing an old lady. The wife of the man (Dietrich) is one of the decisive witnesses. The performances are superb. The plot twists come one after the other.

A, the barrister, suffers from heart disease and thus he is constantly under the surveillance of his personal nurse, played excellently by Elsa Lancehster.

Witness for the Prosecution is a real diamond. You are really captivated for two hours in front of the screen. No comparison with the modern super hero movies.

It deserves a place in any cinephile library.

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Kostas Stergiou

Kostas Stergiou is a Professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was the former Director of the Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters of HCMR (2013-2021).He has research interests on fish and fisheries ecology, modeling and forecasting, ecosystem management, and bibliometrics. He has contributed more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals and several other publications (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k8hb4pIAAAAJ).Since 2008 and 2015 he developed the home cinema and smart home hobbies and has installed different home cinema setups in two different houses which have lately been transformed to smart ones.

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