Testigo de cargo

Título original: The Witness for the Prosecution

Miniserie de TV
2016
16
59min

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La búsqueda ha comenzado para encontrar al asesino de una heredera rica y glamorosa que es encontrada muerta en su casa de Londres. Basado en el cuento de Agatha Christie.La búsqueda ha comenzado para encontrar al asesino de una heredera rica y glamorosa que es encontrada muerta en su casa de Londres. Basado en el cuento de Agatha Christie.La búsqueda ha comenzado para encontrar al asesino de una heredera rica y glamorosa que es encontrada muerta en su casa de Londres. Basado en el cuento de Agatha Christie.

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- 2 premios y 6 nominaciones en total

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Curiosidades
This is the first production of "Witness for the Prosecution" that is based on Agatha Christie's original short (23 pages) story first published in the January 31, 1925 edition of Flynn's Weekly under the title 'Traitor Hands'. She republished it in 1933 under the present title as part of a collection called 'The Hound of Death and other stories'. Christie expanded the story for her 1953 play, changing some of the character names and introducing Sir Wilfrid Robarts as the defense counsel. It is the play, not the short story, that has been the basis for all subsequent television and film versions.

Pifias
Throughout the film they are addressing the judge as "your honour". That's American. In England a male judge is addressed to as "My Lord". Also Americanisms, Janet is hanged with an American-style coiled noose, not the simple eyelet noose used in Britain, and the hood put on her is black (as in America) not white (as in Britain).

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Edited into a single, two hour film for its US home video and streaming release.

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Version of Witness for the Prosecution (1949)

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7/10

Much Better than Recent American Versions of Christie

This is a surprisingly strong and dark interpretation of Agatha Christie. In fact even TV versions of her novels I love - like David Suchet's Poirot - rarely come close to how cynical the real Agatha Christie as an author actually was about humanity. Some of her books are downright bone chilling for the nastiness of the characters considering how long ago they were written and ironically fans like me still cheer on the slightly toned down and charming, cozy PBS or A&E versions of Ms. Marple and Hercule Poirot.

The Witness for the Prosecution is a solid reminder of how the lurid Italian giallo sub-genre is ultimately a product of the original Agatha Christie novels from the early to mid 20th century. In Italy in the olden days mystery novels had yellow covers (giallo). Christie is not the only influence on the 1960s and 70s art house flicks but she's named more frequently as a giallo influence than Raymond Chandler etc.

I was actually a bit taken aback at ho dark this ended up being at the twist, but I have nothing but praise for this attempt.