Witness for the Prosecution

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Witness For The Prosecution, 1957.

Guest host Madeleine Stowe introduces Witness For The Prosecution, 1958.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Witness For The Prosecution, 1957.

Sir Wilfrid (Charles Laughton) grilling accused widow-murder and new client Vole (Tyrone Power), his first use of the famous monocle gimmick, when Brogan-Moore (John Williams) arrives with inconvenient news, in Billy Wilder's Witness For The Prosecution, 1957, from Agatha Christie's play.

Indulgence for the star in the opening act, Sir Wilfrid (Charles Laughton) back from hospital confiding with his man Carter (Ian Wolfe), Miss Plimsoul (Elsa Lanchester, Mrs. Laughton) intruding, in Bill Wilder's film from Agatha Christie's play, Witness For The Prosecution, 1957.

A British barrister gets caught up in a couple's tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder in Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

Recuperating Barrister Sir Wilfrid (Charles Laughton) and colleague Brogan-Moore (John Williams), surrendering to nurse Plimsoul (Elsa Lanchester), not immediately expecting the German wife of his new client, Marlene Dietrich as "Mrs. Vole," in Billy Wilder’s Witness For The Prosecution, 1957.

With no apparent concerns on his conscience, defendant-to-be Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power) reveals to barrister Sir Wilfrid (Charles Laughton) the beginnings of his affair with the murdered Mrs. French (Norma Varden), in Billy Wilder's Witness For The Prosecution, 1957.