![]() ![]() He did not want Louis Jourdan as LaTour, but wanted Robert Newton. ![]() He wanted Ronald Colman or Laurence Olivier as Keane (but Selznick had Gregory Peck signed up). Paradine (but Selznick had Alida Valli signed up). Hitchcock told Francois Truffaut that he felt the casting was wrong. It's most interesting parts of the performances of the leads (except for Alida Valli, who is quite dull), and the famous sequence of the portrait of Valli whose eyes seem to follow the camera (standing in for Gregory Peck/Anthony Keane) as it passes from one room to the next. THE PARADINE CASE is generally conceded as among Hitchcock's lesser films. Whether it would have been better is another matter. In the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock, THE PARADINE CASE as he originally shot would have been of great interest. There are some films that are forever lost that one wishes still existed: the complete GREED and THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (Welles final cut)for examples. In 1980, a flood reputedly destroyed the original, uncut version, making the restoration of the cut scenes unlikely, although it has been reported that some of these cut scenes reside at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Selznick subsequently cut the film to two hours and five minutes, and then to its present length of one hour and fifty-four minutes, in which Barrymore's screen time totals about three minutes. ![]() Paradine, and another scene where Lady Horfield tries to hide her coughing from her husband). In this version, Ethel Barrymore can be seen as the half-crazed wife of Lord Horfield, which explains the Oscar nomination for her performance (there was apparently a brilliant museum scene where Lady Horfield requests Anthony Keane to save Mrs. This rough cut was initially trimmed to two hours and twelve minutes, which was the version screened for the Academy of Arts & Sciences. When Alfred Hitchcock delivered the completed movie to the studio, after a Hitchcock record of ninety-two days of filming, it ran almost three hours. ![]()
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