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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: BILLY WILDER: Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
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CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of murder, betrayal, infidelity, aging..
Our Billy Wilder series rolls along with probably his most ingenious script yet, adapting a modern mystery masterpiece into a legal drama with outstanding jokes. Billy knew he was working with near-perfect source material from the master of mystery herself, Agatha Christie. He takes nothing away from her taut, captivating thriller and instead just punches in heavy doses of fun and wily legal craftsmanship from what had been a side character. And with perfect performances from...