This is a decent British crime drama featuring and an Neagle in one of her last films, playing a tough lady lawyer who takes on Anthony Quayle as a client for the murder of his wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Apparently Gabor was involved in something shady and on their wedding night, was found dad with Quayle indicating that they had a intruder and Gabor was shot accidentally. Outside of Gabor's lively performance, the first part of the film is rather dull, but then it really takes off inside the courtroom. The presence of the very animated Katherine Kath as a witness for the prosecution really liven things up, especially when Neagle goes in for the attack after finding some evidence inside Kath's apartment.
While the first half of the film is rather dull, the script is very intelligent and gets more so once the trial begins. Neagle plays quite a smart cookie, really knowing the ins-and-outs of her job, but she has a tough client with Quayle. He won't take the stand in his defense, and it's up to her to indicate why as she makes a plea for him through her looks and her words to get him to stand up to his defense. Coming out just a year after the film version of Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution", this is a very well done film with Kath as memorable as Dietrich was in that Billy Wilder classic. I would have loved to have seen what happened to her at the end as it was obvious she would be brought up on charges. Gabor is more than just a glamorous pretty faced in this, and I wish she had more opportunities to show that she could act.
While the first half of the film is rather dull, the script is very intelligent and gets more so once the trial begins. Neagle plays quite a smart cookie, really knowing the ins-and-outs of her job, but she has a tough client with Quayle. He won't take the stand in his defense, and it's up to her to indicate why as she makes a plea for him through her looks and her words to get him to stand up to his defense. Coming out just a year after the film version of Agatha Christie's "Witness for the Prosecution", this is a very well done film with Kath as memorable as Dietrich was in that Billy Wilder classic. I would have loved to have seen what happened to her at the end as it was obvious she would be brought up on charges. Gabor is more than just a glamorous pretty faced in this, and I wish she had more opportunities to show that she could act.