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Australian Arts

The Dry

22 May 2021

9:00 AM

22 May 2021

9:00 AM

It’s a hard thing, harder than it should be, to film a detective story. Is Billy Wilder’s version of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution the greatest of them? She certainly thought it was better than any other version of her work though Wilder fiddled and changed and did what he liked.

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