Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Witness (Eagle Lion Classics) sends a brassy U.S. defense lawyer to England on a tough murder case, and then watches him stumble through a baffling maze of provincial customs and courtroom procedure. The plot is predictable, but Producer Joan Harrison and Director-Star Robert Montgomery wring some wry chuckles from their bull-in-the-china-shop situation, and keep the story moving at a lively clip...
Perry Mason tactics into the quiet of a British courtroom, and almost gets his vital evidence thrown...
Like most important U.S. trials, the case of the United States v. Alger Hiss was so fully reported that many surfeited newspaper readers still wonder just what went on in the courtroom. The most convenient and agreeable way to find out is to read A Generation on Trial by Alistair Cooke, brilliant U.S. correspondent of England's Manchester Guardian, himself a U.S. citizen since...
...menacing, meaningful life of its own. He cuts back & forth between the lovers and shots of a frenetic Scottish reel to give a seduction scene a surprisingly erotic effect. His trial sequence, neatly dovetailing flashbacks of testimony into the lawyers' summations, is a fresh, economical way to film courtroom action. Many a moviegoer may find Director Lean's storytelling entertaining enough to divert attention from the weaknesses of the story...
...Bailey is weakest where it might have been richest: in Author O'Donnell's sketchy, fleshless recounting of the trials that took place there through the centuries. He seems to be chiefly interested in showing off Old Bailey's progress from the dim, grim, soulless courtroom of the Reformation days, when more than 200 different crimes carried the death penalty, to today's "fine and stately" oak-paneled Central Criminal Court, where justices take a not-guilty verdict calmly...