The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case is a 1947 film about a happily married London barrister who falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
 * Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Alma Reville, James Bridie, David O. Selznick, and Ben Hecht, based on the novel by Robert Smythe Hichens.

Sir Joseph

 * She had patience. She could wait. This was, indeed, no ordinary woman.

Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine

 * You are not to destroy him - if you do, I shall hate you as I've never hated a man.


 * I have nothing more to say to you, Mr. Keane. I loved Andre Latour... and you murdered him. My life is finished; it is you yourself who have finished it. My only comfort is the hatred and contempt I feel for you!

Gay Keane

 * Well, nice people don't go murdering other nice people.

Dialogue

 * Andre Latour: I know why you wanted to see me - she sent you.
 * Anthony Keane: She? Mrs. Paradine doesn't even know that I'm here. She had nothing to do with it.
 * Andre Latour: It seems I'm wrong then.
 * Anthony Keane: Why would she send me?
 * Andre Latour: She might have her reasons.
 * Anthony Keane: I don't know what they might be.
 * Andre Latour: But perhaps you don't know her as I do.
 * Anthony Keane: Mrs. Paradine is my client. I know her as her lawyer, that's sufficient for me.
 * Andre Latour: You may not think it, but you're on the wrong side, sir, and I tell you so.
 * Anthony Keane: What do you mean exactly by that? You'd better make yourself clear.
 * Andre Latour: Excuse me, sir. You have only known Mrs. Paradine since she is in prison. Is it not so?
 * Anthony Keane: Yes.
 * Andre Latour: Then how can you know her? If you did, I should not need to tell you that only Almighty God or the black Devil himself knows what's going on in that head of hers.
 * Anthony Keane: I won't hear anything more against her.
 * Andre Latour: I know what I'm talking about; what I say is true. I know her. And I will tell you one thing more, I will tell you about Mrs. Paradine - she's bad, bad to the bone! If ever there was an evil woman, she is one.
 * Anthony Keane: Would you mind getting out of here? I don't want any dirty, lying sneaks in my room. Get out!
 * Andre Latour: Very good, sir, as you wish. [leaving] If you would allow me, sir, I'm very sorry for you - and God help you.


 * Gay Keane: Have you ever realized what a lot you can learn from photographs?
 * Sir Simon Flaquer: The social footsteps of time.


 * Anthony Keane: Does the name of Margaret Wells convey anything to you?
 * Andre Latour: [hesitating] Yes, sir.
 * Anthony Keane: What does that name convey to you?
 * [Latour doesn't respond]
 * Anthony Keane: Well, I must try to help your memory. I put it to you that some years ago you were engaged to Margaret Wells of Three Rivers, Quebec; that on your wedding day she left you at the church door and went off with a saddler named Richard Truton.
 * Andre Latour: That is finished! That is in the past!
 * Judge Lord Thomas Horfield: Your question may be relevant, Mr Keane; its relevance escapes me.
 * Anthony Keane: M'lord, I submit that the witness has shown, in his evidence and also in his behavior, an almost pathological bias against, not only my client, but against all women.
 * Judge Lord Thomas Horfield: I may be stupid, but I fail to understand what this jilting has to do with the case; after seeing the witness and observing his appearance and bearing, I should be inclined to regard the young lady's conduct as pathological, not his.


 * Anthony Keane: Is anyone living at the hall now?
 * Driver: Only the caretaker, Mrs. Clarr - maybe Andre's back from London now. They say he knows more about the poor Colonel's death than he would tell. He's a queer one, all right.
 * Anthony Keane: In what way?
 * Driver: Oh, I don't know. He keeps himself to himself - perhaps that's because he's foreign. They never do seem quite the same, do they, sir?


 * Gay Keane: Tony's torn him to pieces - it was horrible.
 * Judy Flaquer: But darling, you've got to remember, its Tony's job.

Cast

 * Gregory Peck - Anthony "Tony" Keane
 * Ann Todd - Gay Keane
 * Alida Valli - Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine
 * Charles Laughton - Judge Lord Thomas Horfield
 * Charles Coburn - Sir Simon Flaquer
 * Joan Tetzel - Judy Flaquer
 * Ethel Barrymore - Lady Sophie Horfield
 * Louis Jourdan - Andre Latour
 * Leo G. Carroll - Sir Joseph
 * Isobel Elsom - Innkeeper