The film was adapted by Larry Marcus, Harry Kurnitz and the film's director, Billy Wilder. A film version of Witness for the Prosecution premiered in 1957 (and reached general release in early 1958), with Tyrone Power as Leonard Vole, Marlene Dietrich as Christine Vole and Charles Laughton as Sir Wilfrid Robarts Q.C.2018 "奪命証人" Witness for the Prosecution by Carina Lau, Paul Chun Pui and Tse Kwan Ho (Hong Kong).2011 (検察側の証人 ) Witness for the Prosecution (Japan).The premiere cast included Derek Blomfield as Leonard Vole, Patricia Jessel as Romaine Vole, and David Horne as Sir Wilfrid Robarts. The play opened in London on 28 October 1953 at the Winter Garden Theatre, produced by Peter Saunders, and directed by Wallace Douglas. Witness for the Prosecution was adapted as a play by Agatha Christie.Main article: Witness for the Prosecution (play) 1948: The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.1925: Flynn's Weekly, 31 January – as "Traitor Hands".Inspector Hearne, the arresting officer.Sir Wilfrid Robarts, QC, senior counsel of the accused.Mr Mayhew / Mayherne, the solicitor of the accused.The mistress and Leonard are about to leave Romaine (called "Christine" in the film and television versions) to be arrested for perjury, when Romaine grabs a knife and stabs and kills Leonard. In her subsequent rewriting of the story as a play she added a mistress for Leonard, who does not appear until the end of the play. Over time, Agatha Christie grew dissatisfied with this ending (one of the few Christie endings in which a murderer escapes punishment). The original story ended abruptly with the major twist - Mrs Vole's revelation that her husband was indeed guilty. It is then revealed that Leonard Vole actually did kill Emily French. She first gives the prosecution its strongest evidence, then fabricates new evidence that discredits her testimony, believing that this improves Leonard's chances of acquittal far more than her testimony for the defence. Romaine's decision is part of a complicated plan to free her husband. When his wife, Romaine, agrees to testify, she does so not in Leonard's defence but as a witness for the prosecution. Unaware that he was a married man, Miss French made him her principal heir, casting suspicion on Leonard. Leonard Vole is arrested for the murder of Emily French, a wealthy older woman.
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