Witness for the Prosecution (1957) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • Some kiss(light).
  • There is a brief scene where a woman is harassed by a group of men and has one of the legs of her pants ripped off in order to expose her bare legs.

Violence & Gore

  • A bunch of men crowd together and jump on to one another & police are fighting with them to break it off. A man also shoves a woman off of him.
  • One of the main characters is accused of murder, and some aspects of the killing are discussed.

Profanity

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • There are about 9 smoking scenes and 5 drinking scenes.
  • There is another scene where a man offers a woman a cigarette but she declines.
  • A man also hides cigars in his cane and brandy in his thermos.
  • Before the courtroom case starts, a man is given medicine to take at various times in the courtroom. He also receives regular shots from his doctor throughout the course of the case, having recently suffered the results of a severe heart attack including a coma.
  • There is smoking of cigars throughout the film.
  • There is one instance where a man does a few shots at the bar, but he is not shown to be acting drunkenly or out of the ordinary.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In a flash back sequence to wartime Germany, a ceiling falls onto a man lying on a bed, hurting his head.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A married man kisses a woman who is not his wife.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman displays a severe scar on her head, but it's a fake.
  • A woman stabs a man -- killing him. There is no blood and it is not shown in graphic detail.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A nurse gives a man a thermos of cocoa to take the medicine with. It is shown that his valet replaces the thermos of cocoa with another thermos of brandy from his briefcase. It is revealed at the end of the movie that the nurse knew he had been drinking brandy from the thermos all along.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman picks up a knife from the table in the courtroom and stabs a man in the stomach with it, killing him in moments

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