

It should have won every academy award of any other kind there is compiled. 1957 - Witness For The Prosecution - Testigo de cargo - Billy Wilder. And just when I thought I'd given it mammoth effort to rise to the top of the mountain with them for all they'd put forth and maintained fiercely and supremely, the most shocking, dynamic ending which can be construed, concocted AND TOO intertwined to blow you far out of the water and leave you lost in outer space. The BEST who -dunn-it I have EVER seen in my life. Especially when each and every one of the actors was completely their own person in very remarkable ways, causing so much competition and conflict, but still drawing us all into wanting to be with all of them and absorb and savor every juicy instant. In other words, there were so many high points, I couldn't count them all. Highly intelligent, extremely suspenseful, having you hang onto your chair while flying loose by the seat of your pants, and yet so intricately woven together that is often smooth as glass. I mean to tell you, this is one of THE very best movies of all time. And so original as well as exciting, I could barely keep up with it without hanging on hard to the pull forward, without stopping and starting too much, and ploughing through the whole meshed content.

Then he looked again at the man opposite him, the man charged with willful murder. Mayherne adjusted his pince-nez and cleared his throat with a little dry-as-dust cough that was wholly typical of him. Best one that could speak for itself, think long and hard about it, "witness" "for" "the" "prosecution." Bravo. Witness for the Prosecution By Agatha Christie.
