Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Sir Joseph, Counsel for the Prosecution: M`lord, I would like to have an opportunity to consider what bearing this has on the case: I`ve just been informed that the witness Latour has done away with himself. Gay Keane: Tony`s torn him to pieces - it was horrible.
Judy Flaquer: But darling, you`ve got to remember, its Tony`s job.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: Is anyone living at the hall now?
Driver: Only the caretaker, Mrs. Clarr - maybe Andre`s back from London now. They say he knows more about the poor Colonel`s death than he would tell. He`s a queer one, all right.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: In what way?
Driver: Oh, I don`t know. He keeps himself to himself - perhaps that`s because he`s foreign. They never do seem quite the same, do they, sir?
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: Does the name of Margaret Wells convey anything to you?
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: [hesitating] Yes, sir.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: What does that name convey to you?
[Latour doesn`t respond]
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: Well, I must try to help your memory. I put it to you that some years ago you were engaged to Margaret Wells of Three Rivers, Quebec; that on your wedding day she left you at the church door and went off with a saddler named Richard Truton.
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: That is finished! That is in the past!
Judge Lord Thomas Horfield: Your question may be relevant, Mr Keane; its relevance escapes me.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: M`lord, I submit that the witness has shown, in his evidence and also in his behavior, an almost pathological bias against, not only my client, but against all women.
Judge Lord Thomas Horfield: I may be stupid, but I fail to understand what this jilting has to do with the case; after seeing the witness and observing his appearance and bearing, I should be inclined to regard the young lady`s conduct as pathological, not his.
Gay Keane: Have you ever realized what a lot you can learn from photographs?
Sir Simon Flaquer: The social footsteps of time.
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: It was she who dragged us both down. I hated every moment with her, but God forgive me, I couldn`t help myself!
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: I know why you wanted to see me - *she* sent you.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: She? Mrs. Paradine doesn`t even know that I`m here. She had nothing to do with it.
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: It seems I`m wrong then.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: Why would she send me?
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: She might have her reasons.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: I don`t know what they might be.
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: But perhaps you don`t know her as I do.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: Mrs. Paradine is my client. I know her as her lawyer, that`s sufficient for me.
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: You may not think it, but you`re on the wrong side, sir, and I tell you so.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: What so you mean exactly by that? You`d better make yourself clear.
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: Excuse me, sir. You have only known Mrs. Paradine since she is in prison. Is it not so?
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: Yes.
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: Then how can you know her? If you did, I should not need to tell you that only Almighty God or the black Devil himself knows what`s going on in that head of hers.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: I won`t hear anything more against her.
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: I know what I`m talking about; what I say is true. I know her. And I will tell you one thing more, I will tell you about Mrs. Paradine - she`s bad, bad to the bone! If ever there was an evil woman, she is one.
Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: Would you mind getting out of here? I don`t want any dirty, lying sneaks in my room. Get out!
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: Very good, sir, as you wish.
Andre Latour, Paradine`s Valet: [leaving] If you would allow me, sir, I`m very sorry for you - and God help you.
Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine: You are not to destroy him - if you do, I shall hate you as I`ve never hated a man.
Sir Joseph, Counsel for the Prosecution: She had patience. She could wait. This was, indeed, no ordinary woman.
Gay Keane: Well, nice people don`t go murdering other nice people.
Trivia
According to Book "Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light", Hitchcock`s favorite effect, he told Charles Higham, had been planned since the inception of The Paradine Case. Keane and Sir Simon Flaquer walk toward the camera as they enter Lincoln`s Inn, part of venerable fourteenth-century London law complex. The two are seen entering the building, closing the door, walking up the stairs, turning the corner, heading along a landing into an office, and then continuing into the office, all without a single cut. It was one of Hitchcock`s signature composites, using background projection and a treadmill, elaborately planned and prepared in advance by his second unit in London. Opposed to the long take, and oblivious of the significance of Lincoln`s Inn, Selznick deleted the shot.
In Hitchcock`s rough cut and 131 minutes version, Ethel Barrymore can be seen as a half crazed wife of Lord Horfield played by Charles Laughton. But David O. Selznick removed these scenes in the final editing and the final runtime was only 114 minutes.
Alfred Hitchcock wanted Robert Newton for the role "William Marsh." But the role went to `Louis Jourdan (I)`. So the name "William Marsh" was changed to "Andre Latour."
James Mason was also considered for the role "Anthony Keane."
Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick wanted Sir Laurence Olivier for the role "Malcolm Keane." But Sir Laurence Olivier was unavailable. So the role went to Gregory Peck. And the name "Malcolm Keane" was changed to "Anthony Keane."
Although "The Paradine Case" was a box office failure, many critics noticed performances from Ann Todd and Joan Tetzel. Time Magazine (Jan. 12, 1948 issue) commented their performances like this - "The only characters who come sharply to life are the barrister`s wife (Ann Todd) and her confidante (Joan Tetzel)." Variety Magazine Commented about Ann Todd`s performance in "The Paradine Case" like this "Ann Todd delights as his wife, giving the assignment a grace and understanding that tug at the emotions."
A memorable image in The Paradine Case occurs when Mrs. Paradine is taken from her life of luxury and confined to a bare jail cell. The slamming of the iron door behind her as she enters the cell recalls one of Hitchcock`s own memories, that of six-year old Alfred being locked up in the Leytonstone jail.
Greta Garbo turned down the role of Martha in "I remember Mama" around the same time she also rejected to play "Mrs. Paradine" in Alfred Hitchcock`s The Paradine Case (1947). She is reputed to have commented, "No murderesses, no mamas."
Ben Hecht and James Bridie wrote the original screenplay, based on the adaptation by Alma Reville. But David O. Selznick wasn`t pleased. So David O. Selznick rewrote the script.
When Keane goes to the Paradine house in Cumberland, he walks over to Mrs. Paradine`s piano. On the piano we see close-up of a page of music called Appassionata Op. 69 by Francesco Ceruomo. Francesco Ceruomo is an Italianized version of Frank Waxman, who wrote the background music for the film. The music shown on the piano is the actual music that is playing on the soundtrack at that point.
The music in "The Paradine Case" was written by Franz Waxman.
It was Alfred Hitchcock who selected `Ann Todd (I)` for the role Gay Keane.
Alfred Hitchcock wanted to direct Ingrid Bergman in the role of a woman on trial for killing her husband - the part that eventually went to Alida Valli. Bergman wanted to avoid doing another movie for producer David O. Selznick.
When Alfred Hitchcock delivered the completed film to the studio, after a Hitchcock record of 92 days of filming, it ran almost three hours.
While Alfred Hitchcock liked the actors, he felt that Gregory Peck, Alida Valli and `Louis Jourdan (I)` were unsuited to their roles. David O. Selznick asserted his power as studio head to insist that Hitchcock use them.
In 1980, a flood destroyed the original, uncut version, making the restoration of the cut scenes unlikely.
Alfred Hitchcock wanted to cast Laurence Olivier or Ronald Colman as Anthony Keane, Greta Garbo as Mrs. Paradine and Robert Newton as André Latour.
The movie cost almost exactly the same to film as Gone with the Wind (1939), with most of the overruns due to David O. Selznick`s constant interference with Alfred Hitchcock`s carefully budgeted production and his insistence that Hitchcock do extensive re-shoots. Since Hitchcock required that he receive his contractual $1,000-per-day fee, Selznick took over, including supervising editing and the musical score.
Alfred Hitchcock`s last film under contract with David O. Selznick.
An exact replica of the Old Bailey courtroom was constructed for the court scenes.
Director Cameo: [Alfred Hitchcock] getting off a train at the Cumberland station carrying a cello.
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