MOVIE · 1948

The Paradine Case

CrimeDramaMysteryRomanceThriller125 min

London barrister Anthony Keane takes on the defense of Maddalena Paradine, a woman accused of poisoning her blind husband, and becomes dangerously invested in proving her innocence. Gregory Peck is Keane, a respected lawyer whose fascination with his client begins to cloud both his judgment and his marriage; Alida Valli's Maddalena stays guarded and difficult to read. As the trial unfolds and Keane turns his attention toward her servant, André Latour, Alfred Hitchcock frames the case as both a public spectacle and a private unraveling inside Keane's home.