Extended Reading
  • Loyce 2022-06-28 14:38:23

    A Fantasy

    This is one of the few Hitchcock films I haven't seen, and my overall impression of the film is not bad.
    First of all, I had high expectations for it and I was not disappointed after reading it.
    Second, because of time and energy, I read it in two parts. For a long time after I watched the first...

  • Terence 2022-06-28 17:51:26

    Loyalty and Jealousy

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    Female The protagonist, jealous of the servant's loyalty to the master, poisons the old and...

The Paradine Case quotes

  • Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine: When I was still at school in Naples it began. I was 16, or so I said. Actually I was younger.

    Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: Tragic.

    Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine: Yes, perhaps. But I didn't think so then. I ran away with a man. Istanbul, Athens, Cairo.

    Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: He was much older, of course? Rich. He took advantage of your youth.

    Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine: He was married, respected. I took advantage of him. Then, as suddenly as it began, it ended. He wearied of me, and I wearied of him. What difference does it make?

    Anthony Keane, Counsel for the Defense: There were - others?

    Mrs. Maddalena Anna Paradine: Of course there were others!

  • Sir Simon Flaquer: I don't know where you came by this decidedly unfeminine interest in things!