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Director:
Writers:
Robert Hichens (novel)
Alma Reville (adaptation)
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Release Date:
26 August 1949 (Sweden) more
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Plot:
The beautiful Mrs. Paradine is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband. She hires married Anthony... more | full synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. more
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On DVD Today: October 14, 2008
 (From Rope Of Silicon. 14 October 2008, 1:30 AM, PDT)

Actress Valli Dies
 (From WENN. 24 April 2006)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
125 min | 119 min (re-release) | 132 min (original release) | 94 min (edited television version) | 115 min (re-release)
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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In Hitchcock's rough cut and 131 minutes version, Ethel Barrymore can be seen as a half crazed wife of Lord Horfield played by Charles Laughton. But David O. Selznick removed these scenes in the final editing and the final runtime was only 114 minutes. more
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Continuity: When Latour is seen in close-up in the court, there is a man on either side of him. In the long shots, there is nobody near him. more
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[first lines]
Lakin: Dinner will be ready in fifteen minutes, mum.
Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine: Thank you, Lakin.
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The Selznick/Hitchcock Touch, 10 August 2000
Author: (patrick.hunter@csun.edu) from Northridge, Ca

I wish some other star rather than Gregory Peck had played the lead role. Someone like a Ronald Coleman (whom Hitchcock wanted) or Laurence Olivier (whom Selznick wanted). I personally would have loved Robert Donat, but any of the above would have served better. I like Peck normally, but in this film, he's too young and never convincingly English, despite his accent. Even without the accent, he doesn't suggest someone who is passionately and irrationally swept away, as the role calls for.

That said, I still love the film. Some Hitchcock films I love more--as I guess we all do--but I prefer this one over others. View THE PARADINE CASE and then compare it with the master's three movies that followed, those he directed without Selznick (ROPE, UNDER CAPRICORN, STAGE FRIGHT), and you'll see the touch that pervades those he made with Selznick. All the Selznick/Hitchcock flicks are wonderful; they are the director's most glamorous and romantic movies.

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