He portrayed a bloodthirsty pirate in Captain Kidd ( 1945 ) and a malevolent judge in The Paradine Case ( 1948 ).

He followed that with the Hitchcock films Spellbound ( 1945 ) and The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), as well as Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), a vehicle for Jennifer Jones.

Among his other films were Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), The Gunfighter ( 1950 ), Moby Dick ( 1956 ), On the Beach ( 1959 ), which brought to life the terrors of global nuclear war, The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), and Roman Holiday ( 1953 ), with Audrey Hepburn in her Oscar-winning role.

Hitchcock's contract with Selznick began in March 1939, but only resulted in three films-Rebecca ( 1940 ) and The Paradine Case ( 1947 ) being the other two ( Notorious was sold to RKO in mid-production ).

He also appeared in Hitchcock's The Paradine Case with Gregory Peck as a barrister, and as an insurance company representative in To Catch a Thief with Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.

* The Paradine Case ( 1947 )

Carroll is perhaps best known for his roles in six Alfred Hitchcock films: Rebecca ( 1940 ), Suspicion ( 1941 ), Spellbound ( 1945 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ), and North by Northwest ( 1959 ).

* The Paradine Case ( 1947 )

* The Paradine Case ( 1947 )

The Paradine Case is a 1947 American courtroom drama film, set in England, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and produced by David O. Selznick.

The Paradine Case was also the American film debut of Louis Jourdan as Andre Latour, Paradine's valet.

Alfred Hitchcock and Gregory Peck in discussion on the set of The Paradine Case

The Paradine Case was the last film made under Hitchcock's seven-year contract with Selznick, and it has been suggested that Hitchcock was tired of the association by that time.

The Paradine Case had its world premiere in Los Angeles on December 29, 1947, opening simultaneously in two theatres across the street from each other in Westwood.

The Paradine Case was not a box office success: worldwide receipts barely covered half of the cost of production.

Hitchcock described The Paradine Case as "... a love story embedded in the emotional quicksand of a murder trial ".

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the film, the acting, and Hitchcock's direction, and wrote, " With all the skill in presentation for which both gentlemen are famed, David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock have put upon the screen a slick piece of static entertainment in their garrulous The Paradine Case ... Gregory Peck is impressively impassioned as the famous young London barrister who lets his heart, cruelly captured by his client, rule his head.

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* Hitchcock had originally wanted Greta Garbo to play Mrs Maddalena Anna Paradine, but she turned down the role after the screen test, which allowed Alida Valli to step into the role for her American film debut.

Other actors who were considered for the film include: Maurice Evans, Joseph Cotten, Alan Marshal, James Mason for " Anthony Keane "; Hedy Lamarr for Mrs. Paradine ; Claude Rains for " Lord Thomas Horfield "; and Robert Newton for Mrs. Paradine's lover.

In the Hitchcock film The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), Alida Valli's character causes the deaths of two men and the near destruction of another.

Other notable film credits include Of Human Hearts ( 1938 ), The Lady Eve ( 1941 ), Kings Row ( 1942 ), The Constant Nymph ( 1943 ), Heaven Can Wait ( 1943 ), Wilson ( 1944 ), Impact ( 1949 ), The Paradine Case ( 1947 ), Everybody Does It ( 1950 ), Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

David O. Selznick had purchased the rights to Robert S. Hichens ' novel in 1933, before it was published, when Selznick was still at MGM, with Greta Garbo in mind to star – indeed, Garbo was Hichens ' inspiration for the creation of " Mrs. Paradine ".

A draft of the script was submitted by MGM to the censors at the Hays Office, who warned that the script would likely be rejected since Mrs. Paradine was guilty of murder, adultery and perjury, and later committed suicide.

In the end, Hitchcock pushed for Gregory Peck, then at the peak of his box office appeal, Ann Todd was loaned from the Rank Organisation to play his wife, and Selznick settled on Alida Valli, considered one of the most promising actresses in the Italian cinema for " Mrs. Paradine ".

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Raunds was the home of broadcaster, writer and television personality Sir David Frost in his youth, when his father, Paradine Frost, was a minister at the Methodist church.

As of 1996, it is produced by David Frost's own production company, Paradine Productions at The Leeds Studios ( having originally been produced by Yorkshire Television ), and has been on air since 3 April 1987.

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Trent's Last Case is an adaptation of British author E. C. Bentley's 1913 novel of the same name, and had already been adapted to film in England in 1920.

Leaflets arguing against the film's representation of the New Testament ( for example, suggesting that the Wise Men would not have approached the wrong stable as they do in the opening of the film ) were documented in Robert Hewison's book Monty Python: The Case Against.

An early listing of the sequence of sketches reprinted in Monty Python: The Case Against by Robert Hewison reveals that the film was to have begun with a set of sketches at an English public school.

The 1990 film Two Evil Eyes presents two Poe tales, " The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar " and " The Black Cat.

In 2011, she played " Lenore Case ", the journalist in the remake of the 1940s film The Green Hornet, and was the central lead in the hit comedy Bad Teacher.

In Neil Gaiman's early short story The Case of the Four and Twenty Blackbirds, the Humpty Dumpty story is turned into a film noir-style hardboiled crime story, involving also Cock Robin, the Queen of Hearts, Little Bo Peep, Old Mother Hubbard and other characters from popular nursery rhymes.

In 2008, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band classic " Ostrich Walk ", written by Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields, in a performance by Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer, was included on the soundtrack to the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

Case 5 of John Magee ( missionary ) | John Magee's film: on December 13, 1937, about 30 Japanese soldiers murdered all but 2 Chinese of 11 in the house at No. 5 Xinlukou.

The circumstances surrounding Calvi's death were made into a feature film, I Banchieri di Dio-Il Caso Calvi ( God's Bankers-The Calvi Case ), in 2001.

Highlights of Redgrave's early film career include her first starring role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ( for which she earned an Oscar nomination, a Cannes award, a Golden Globe nomination and a BAFTA Film Award nomination ); her portrayal of a cool London swinger in 1966's Blowup ; her spirited portrayal of dancer Isadora Duncan in Isadora ( for which she won a National Society of Film Critics ' Award for Best Actress, a second Prize for the Best Female Performance at the Cannes Film Festival, along with a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination in 1969 ); and various portrayals of historical figures – ranging from Andromache in The Trojan Women, to Mary, Queen of Scots in the film of the same name.

" There is product placement of Jolt Cola in the movies Deep Impact, Cops and Robbersons, Trust ( film ), Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Men at Work, Basket Case 2, 11: 14, Due Date and Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

Similarly, the books by the equally successful American author Erle Stanley Gardner ( 1889 – 1970 ), creator of the lawyer Perry Mason, which have frequently been adapted for film, radio, and TV, were only recently republished in the United Kingdom — books such as The Case of the Stuttering Bishop ( 1937 ), The Case of the Green-Eyed Sister ( 1953 ), etc.

* Daisy Fuller, a character in the film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

He worked throughout Germany and directed his first film in 1931, the comedy short Dann schon lieber Lebertran ( literally In This Case, Rather Cod-Liver Oil ).

Eddie Acuff took over the Spudsy role in the 1936 film The Case of the Velvet Claws.

The film is an adaptation of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ( 1886 ), the Robert Louis Stevenson tale of a man who takes a potion which turns him from a mild-mannered man of science into a homicidal maniac.

He made his film debut in 1935 in The Case of Gabriel Perry, and spent the remainder of the decade playing supporting roles in films, often being credited with " stealing the scene " from the star.

The most recent film adaptation of Trent's Last Case was directed in 1952 by Herbert Wilcox.

In 1953 he also played inspectors in the crime films The Drayton Case and Black 13, the latter directed by Ken Hughes and co-starring Peter Reynolds, Rona Anderson and Patrick Barr ; he again worked with John Harlow in the 1954 film Dangerous Cargo.

Another renowned film was Elizabeth Montgomery's portrayal of a rape victim in the drama A Case of Rape ( 1974 ).

Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck ( 1925 ), also known as Gus Visser and His Singing Duck, is an early sound film, directed by Theodore Case while perfecting his variable density sound-on-film process.