I know very little about Director James Hill, other than he directed BORN FREE (1966), one of my favorite films in early teen years.
THE DOCK BRIEF (also known as TRIAL AND ERROR) benefits immensely from the acting prowess of the two leads, Peter Sellers as a bumbling barrister who has coasted along all his life and is now faced with possibly the sole case he can win in his career, and Richard Attenborough as the bird lover with a wife with a broad sense of humor who somehow gets the bee to buzz under his bonnet, with upshot that he kills her in a fit of totally needless and incomprehensible rage.
Sellers keeps imagining defense punchlines, surprise witnesses, a judge, and Attenborough goes along with his barrister's phoney moves. You can tell that line of defense will not see Attenborough off the hook... but that is where the surprise ending comes up and saves the day! 7/10.
THE DOCK BRIEF (also known as TRIAL AND ERROR) benefits immensely from the acting prowess of the two leads, Peter Sellers as a bumbling barrister who has coasted along all his life and is now faced with possibly the sole case he can win in his career, and Richard Attenborough as the bird lover with a wife with a broad sense of humor who somehow gets the bee to buzz under his bonnet, with upshot that he kills her in a fit of totally needless and incomprehensible rage.
Sellers keeps imagining defense punchlines, surprise witnesses, a judge, and Attenborough goes along with his barrister's phoney moves. You can tell that line of defense will not see Attenborough off the hook... but that is where the surprise ending comes up and saves the day! 7/10.