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...Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's polished but plotty courtroom drama, with Gregory Peck, Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
...Among them, Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy McGuire, Valli, Shirley Temple, Louis Jourdan, Robert Mitchum, Robert Young...
...whole movie consists of flashbacks while Jourdan reads this letter. Having only known her for one night many years before, he is naturally startled to learn that she has loved him all her life, that he had a son, and that he has provided the plot for an extremely complicated movie. Incidentally, the letter starts: "By the time you get this I will probably be dead," which is enough to shake a stronger man's nerve. His conscience hurts him, so he goes out to fight the duel with her husband from which he had been planning to run before...
Miss Fontaine, in her performance of a girl whose shyness is pitiful to watch, is the best part of this movie. She spends a great deal of time listening entranced to Jourdan's piano playing and hiding behind curtains and doors, but manages to smile wistfully, even while sinning...
...Jourdan's acting is even less convincing than his peculiar role, that of a forgetful, confused, rich and good-looking Viennese composer. He lives in an apartment that would have made Johann Strauss' mouth water. The background of Vienna looks convincing, the supporting cast does fairly well, and if the plot, taken from a novel by Stefan Zweig but curiously reminiscent of "The Constant Nymph," were not so contrived, "Letter From An Unknown Woman" would come close to being a grade "B" picture...