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  The Paradine Case (1947)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Paradine is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband.
Paradine (Alida Valli) is arrested and tried for the murder of her husband.
Paradine being arrested in her elegant home and taken to prison.
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 In and Around The Paradine Case
The battle over opposed images of Mrs Paradine is fought most obviously during the trial, between the prosecution’s attempt to show that she is villainous, a threat to all that is good, socially sanctioned and traditional, and Tony Keane’s insistence on her essential nobility, demonstrated by self-sacrificing devotion to her blind husband.
Paradine has been accused of her husband’s murder, doubt is raised about her guilt and the narrative moves to the final revelation of truth.
Mrs Paradine reclaims her voice and speaks openly for the only time in the film, condemning herself but also reducing Tony, whose identity is inherently bound up with control of rational discourse, to a stumbling recognition of the consequences of his actions and finally to silence.
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 The Paradine Case (1947 b 114')   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Paradine and is astonished at the sacrifice a woman so beautiful must have made to marry a blind man. He learns that she was poor and had other affairs before she was married.
Paradine again, and she does not want him trying to show that Andre helped her husband commit suicide or that he murdered him.
Paradine is a patient woman and implies that she married and murdered her blind husband for his money.
www.san.beck.org /MM/1947/ParadineCase.html   (486 words)

  
 Intelliflix: Rent Paradine Case on DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Paradine (Ann Todd) is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband.
Paradine placed on trial for the murder of her husband.
Paradine is played with subtle radiance by Alida Valli who embodies the alluring vision of pulchritude that barrister Gregory Peck has created and fallen under the spell of.
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 Images - The Feminine Gaze in Notorious and The Paradine Case
Paradine has always controlled how men perceive her; when she confesses her past to Tony, she tells him she passed for older than she was.
Paradine demonstrates Studlar's thesis, that death may be an active choice by a woman who refuses to submit to male judgment and control.
Paradine's life, reminding her husband of her constant love for him--and that he used to be kind.
www.imagesjournal.com /issue09/features/femininegaze/text3.htm   (1274 words)

  
 THE CINEMA LASER DVD REVIEW-- THE PARADINE CASE
Paradine claims she is innocent, all of the evidence seems to indicate her guilt.
Paradine's innocence, the strain of the case begins to take its toll on Keane's marriage, causing his wife Gay (Ann Todd) to suspect that he has fallen in love with his beautiful client.
THE PARADINE CASE is not a great Hitchcock film, but it is a very well made movie the benefits from the touch of "the Master of Suspense." Anchor Bay's DVD looks and sounds great for a film of this vintage and is well worth checking out by Hitchcock fans and movie buffs in general.
www.thecinemalaser.com /dvd_reviews/paradine-case-dvd.htm   (590 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Paradine Case (1947): Video: Patrick Aherne,Ethel Barrymore,Leo G. Carroll,Charles Coburn,Elspeth ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Maddalena Anna Paradine, Leo G. Carroll as Sir Joseph, Counsel for the Prosecution, Joan Tetzel as Judy Flaquer, Isobel Elsom as Innkeeper...
In THE PARADINE CASE, she is on trial for murdering her husband in a stuffy British courtroom, to which her sultry and exotic beauty is continually being counterpointed.
Paradine seems cooly unapproachable, he is increasingly drawn to her, magnetically attracted.
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 Steve Rhodes reviews The Paradine Case
THE PARADINE CASE (1947), admittedly one of Hitchcock's lesser movies, turned out to be one I'd missed.
Paradine dies, his heart will go with her.
Paradine's valet, who has had some not-to-be-discussed relationships.
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 paradine-case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
THE PARADINE CASE (1948) B/W 131m dir: Alfred Hitchcock
From Variety's contemporary review of the film: "The Paradine Case offers two hours and 11 minutes of high dramatics.
THE PARADINE CASE was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (Barrymore).
yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/p/paradine-case.html   (335 words)

  
 The Paradine Case -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Paradine Case was a 1947 courtroom drama movie, directed by (English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980)) Alfred Hitchcock, produced by (United States filmmaker noted for his film adaptations of popular novels (1902-1965)) David O. Selznick.
The film is not usually considered to be one of Hitchcock's better films.
Keane is married but begans to fall in love with his client.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_paradine_case.htm   (129 words)

  
 The Paradine Case: Intro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Paradine Case was the first English-language film for both of them, although both were fairly well established stars prior to making this film.
In the end, although the film as a whole is too melodramatic and wordy, the suspense does hold up from start to finish, and the excellent cast (including Ann Todd, Charles Coburn, and Ethel Barrymore, who was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her role) help to maintain the audience's attention.
The Paradine Case is based upon a novel entitled _The Paradine Case_ written by Robert Hichens and first published in 1933.
www.tdfilm.com /filmography/The%20Paradine%20Case/paradine-intro.html   (441 words)

  
 Paradine Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Considering Alfred Hitchcock’s lifelong fascination with murder and suspense, it is remarkable that the PARADINE CASE stands as a rare Hitchcock courtroom drama.
The case will be a difficult one, however, as the judge (Charles Laughton) is no friend of Keane's; the queen’s prosecutor, played by the excellent Leo G. Carroll, is a serious foe; and only an inspired defense will have any chance of clearing Mrs.
Production of the PARADINE CASE ran an extraordinary $3 million in 1947 and is evidenced in the detailed re-creation of the Old Bailey courtroom, which is the site of some of the film's most carefully orchestrated sequences, created by filming with four cameras simultaneously.
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 When I Made The Paradine Case
It still had the stench of an MGM quality production of the early ‘30s with Norma Shearer miscast as that Paradine woman and Robert Montgomery or Clark Gable equally miscast as the lawyer who falls for her.
Paradine’s passion for him more understandable, matching Alida’s cheekbone for cheekbone.
Oh, it was a hoity-toity affair all right, pinkie in the air kind of eyewash, the British upper classes and how they lived, something I knew nothing about except from the movies, mostly my own.
www.rouge.com.au /4/paradine_rappaport.html   (3827 words)

  
 The Paradine Case: Waxman, Herrmann & North
The Paradine Case: Hollywood Piano Concertos by Waxman, Herrmann, North.
Waxman's score for Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947) depicts its three main characters.
Pianist David Buechner (he's since had a sex change like Wendy Carlos before him, which I'm told, is all over the net) and the New Zealand Symphony under James Sedares give alert style-conscious performances and the sound, though digital, is quite warm.
www.classical-music-review.org /reviews/ParadineCase.html   (533 words)

  
 Youngmanridge.com - "The Paradine Case" Movie Review
One of the lesser known films of Hitchcock, "The Paradine Case", stars Gregory Peck as Anthony Keane, a barrister (that's lawyer for us American folks) is called upon to defend a widow accused of murdering her old, rich, and blind husband.
Upon meeting Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), Keane is captivated by her.
Paradine is rather attractive, her character in general is rather flat.
www.youngmanridge.com /pop/movies/paradinecase/paradine.htm   (554 words)

  
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 The Paradine Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ann Todd is accused and arrested for poisoning her husband in the Paradine Case.
Paradine goes free and he starts to investigate the case more rigorously, especially concentrating on the deceased Mr.
Paradine is truly evil and he should have nothing to do with her.
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 Paradine Case
He snorts that `the Paradine woman will be hanged within three clear Sundays'--and falls to picking his teeth with a gold toothpick.
The other murder case was that of Florence Maybrick, a young American woman found guilty of poisoning her English husband at Liverpool in 1889.
At one point, Keane tells Mrs Paradine, `Unless I can put my heart into this case, I shall lose it, and you're deliberately keeping me in the dark.' That line was cut from the script at the last minute.
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 mcgilligan1_c
The Paradine Case may also be found, I understand, on the website of the Law Library, the University of Texas at Austin.) When that book came out, Hitchcock expert Dan Auiler wrote that '[Ken Mogg] may know more about Hitchcock and his milieu than any other film critic'.
The [basis of The Paradine Case] was the 1933 novel by prolific author Robert Hichens, once an associate of Oscar Wilde.
A case in point: The Ring was one of at least two BIP films that drew heavily on the plot and often the mood of the German Variety (1925), directed by E.A. Dupont.
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 The Paradine Case : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Valli is accused of murdering her husband who we never see in person but only in a portrait.
Paradine seems cooly unapproachable, he is increasingly drawn to her, magnetically attracted.
Paradine, and she wants Andre La Tour, so badly she murders her husband and benefactor to remove any and all obstacles standing between her and La Tour.
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 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The case is being heard by judge Laughton, who doesn't much like Peck, probably because Laughton had once come on to Todd and was rebuffed.
Valli refuses to have Jourdan mentioned in the case; nevertheless, Peck calls the stableman to the stand, grilling him in an attempt to show that it was Jourdan who killed Valli's husband.
Hitchcock thought that Olivier and Garbo might be the right leads for THE PARADINE CASE, but Olivier was busy preparing his HAMLET and Garbo wanted to be alone, so the great filmmaker had to settle for Peck and Valli.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=10130   (403 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: The Paradine Case
Maddalena Anna Paradine (Alida Valli, billed as just Valli), accused of poisoning her husband, a respected hero blinded in the war.
Anchor Bay's DVD of The Paradine Case is a top-notch presentation.
The Paradine Case is not the best Alfred Hitchcock movie by a long shot, with its star chemistry and soap opera story that never seem to gel.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s199paradine.html   (998 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: Paradine Case [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hitchcock himself said, in his Francois Truffaut interview, that he was handed this script by the studio and forced to work with it.
This was more often the case in his earlier studio days when he had less artistic control.
I enjoy "The Paradine Case", as the actors, under the master's direction, truly practice their craft.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000K0EJ   (799 words)

  
 The Paradine Case Review | TVGuide.com
The case is being heard by judge Laughton, who doesn't much like Peck, probably because Laughton had once come on to Todd and was rebuffed.
Valli refuses to have Jourdan mentioned in the case; nevertheless, Peck calls the stableman to the stand, grilling him in an attempt to show that it was Jourdan who killed Valli's husband.
Hitchcock thought that Olivier and Garbo might be the right leads for THE PARADINE CASE, but Olivier was busy preparing his HAMLET and Garbo wanted to be alone, so the great filmmaker had to settle for Peck and Valli.
www.tvguide.com /movies/paradine-case/review/108797   (413 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Paradine Case: DVD: Patrick Aherne,Ethel Barrymore,Leo G. Carroll,Charles Coburn,Elspeth Dudgeon,Isobel ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On the surface it appears to be about a courtroom murder case where the accused Misses Paradine...
THE PARADINE CASE is an opulent production concerning the elegantly statuesque and enigmatic Mrs.
Paradine placed on trial for the murder of her husband.
www.amazon.com /Paradine-Case-Patrick-Aherne/dp/B00000K0EJ   (1636 words)

  
 Images - The Feminine Gaze in Notorious and The Paradine Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Femine Gaze in Notorious and The Paradine Case
Though a male gaze perspective may be present, the controlling gaze in several films is actually female.
In these films, Hitchcock's female gaze may be as objectifying and controlling of the man as a male gaze is to a woman, while in other cases it exists as a knowing, patient and protective gaze.
www.imagesjournal.com /issue09/features/femininegaze   (144 words)

  
 Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case
The announcement was promising, since the film had been severely edited and re-edited by Selznick.
Paradine, and despite the fact that she does hate her, she wants him to do all he can to see that Mrs.
It's a damn shame the sequence was cut, as it adds another dimension to the film — making Lord Horfield that much more menacing, both to poor old Sophy and to Keane.
stevenderosa.com /writingwithhitchcock/paradinecase.html   (962 words)

  
 MTV.com - Movies - The Paradine Case   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her wealthy husband.
Hitchcock had wanted Greta Garbo to play Anna Paradine, and indeed a screen test was filmed, but Garbo ultimately declined.
At the time of filming, Hitchcock was enamored with uninterrupted, 10-minute takes (later used to the extreme in Rope); thus, the Old Bailey courtroom set where much of the action takes place was designed to accommodate multiple cameras and elaborately conceived crane movements.
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 Paradine Case, The   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Paradine Case, The - Fall Paradin, Der (1947)
Highly successful London barrister Anthony Keane takes on the case of Italian Maddalena Paradine who is accused of poisoning her blind military hero husband.
Keane comes increasingly under her spell, threatening both his marriage and his career.
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The Paradine Case by Robert Hichens - p/b 1958 
THE PARADINE CASE, 1957, Gregory Peck, Ann Todd 
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