The Paradine Case
- Lux Radio Theater (May 9, 1949): starring Joseph Cotten and Valli (reprised her film role).
The Paradine Case is no one's favourite Hitchcock film. I'm baffled as to why David O. Selznick thought this was going to be a huge film; at least with a spectacle like Duel in the Sun you can see how commercial it is. But this? It's a courtroom drama and it's not good courtroom drama. It's inert and turgid. The story only becomes interesting in the climax when the murderer is revealed. But for all that, this adaptation is still good radio and at half the length of the film, less tiresome.
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