Your Witness (1950)
British drama directed by and starring Robert Montgomery as an American lawyer who comes over to a sleepy English village to defend a friend who saved his life during the Anzio campaign in the war, who ends up accused of murder.
The first part of the film is decent fun as New Yorker Montgomery adapts to quaint English traditions building up towards a court case finale. Although the film is quite slow moving Montgomery is watchable enough in his final screen performance as is Leslie Banks in his, but what i enjoyed most was the lengthy role a young and almost unrecognizable Michael Ripper had as the war veteran on trial for murder.
The Network dvd looks and sounds splendid.
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