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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Hitchcock’s courtroom melodrama, it turns a respectable man’s attraction to an enigmatic woman into an increasingly claustrophobic ordeal of guilt, deception, and mounting suspense.
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Why this pick
A poised psychological thriller about a woman caught in a criminal predicament, with the same noirish tension between respectability, desire, and legal peril.
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Why this pick
For the pleasure of courtroom maneuvering, ambiguous testimony, and a glamorous defendant whose private life keeps unsettling the case’s apparent logic.
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Why this pick
A lean, fatalistic legal thriller that shares Hitchcock’s interest in how evidence, performance, and personal obsession can make justice feel frighteningly unstable.
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Why this pick
Its cool, patient courtroom strategy and morally elusive relationships offer a more expansive but similarly adult investigation of desire and culpability.
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01 / THE STORY
Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer is drawn to the enigmatic beauty, and he begins to cast about for a way to exonerate his client. Keane puts the Paradine household servant on the stand, suggesting he is the killer. But Keane soon loses his way in the courtroom, and his half-baked plan sets off a stunning chain of events.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Gay Keane
Lady Sophie Horfield
Judy Flaquer
Innkeeper
Anthony Keane
Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
Sir Simon Flaquer
Andre Latour
