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Released
1947 · FILM

The Paradine Case

A barrister's infatuation with his client, a woman accused of murdering her blind husband, clouds his judgment and jeopardizes both the case and his marriage.

“The dramatic case of a beautiful woman whose trial for murder held the nation spellbound.”

Directed by
Alfred Hitchcock
Written by
David O Selznick, Alma Reville
Runtime
114 min
CrimeDramaRomance

Synopsis

In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes on the case of Maddalena Paradine, a striking woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Although happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his mysterious client and believes in her innocence. His growing obsession impairs his judgment as he constructs a defense that points to her servant, André Latour—an action that results in tragic outcomes both in the courtroom and in his personal life.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Shot by Lee GarmesScored by Franz WaxmanDesigned by J Mcmillan Johnson

Box Office

1947 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.1M

Budget$4.3M
Worldwide gross$2.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Fall Paradinde
  • Le Procès Paradinefr
  • Il caso Paradineit

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