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...Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's polished but plotty courtroom drama, with Gregory Peck, Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
...Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's polished but plotty courtroom drama, with Gregory Peck,. Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
...Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's polished but plotty courtroom drama, with Gregory Peck, Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
...Paradine Case. Alfred Hitchcock's polished, plotty courtroom drama, with Gregory Peck, Valli, Ann Todd, Louis Jourdan (TIME...
...hard to figure who is at fault, or why, in the case of the much heralded Italian newcomer, Valli. Her beauty, or better-than-beauty, has an almost reptilian fascination; she is, indeed, the most fatale-looking femme since Garbo. But it remains an open question whether she can act. Hitchcock, keeping her nearly motionless, plies her with one slow, cold, lambent close-up after another. Some of these close-ups function forcefully in the storytelling; but too many are as nonfunctional as her frequent changes of hairdo. It looks as if Hitchcock, one of the smartest directors of women...