Movie Verdicts: Witness for the Prosecution

Robert and Daniel talk about this 1950's classic from Agatha Christie and Billy Wilder, which includes one of the wildest endings of any legal movie. If you haven't watched Witness for the Prosecution, go see it and then come back to listen to the pod!

In this episode:

• The long road for this movie from short story to play to film.
• The incredible life story of producer/director Billy Wilder (The Apartment, Some Like it Hot)
• Barristers v. Solicitors in England v. American Lawyers
• We run the Bechdel test and the Callahan-Hare test
• The bizarre monocle lie detector test
• Charles Loughton and Elsa Lanchester are awesome
• A Ben Affleck reboot is coming?!
• The secrecy around the ending, and the lengths the producers went to keep it secret, even after it was released
• All our awards, and of course,
• Our final verdict