![]() ![]() ![]() Now in fairness there is nothing wrong about a bit of lawyer showboating, in fact the best courtroom movies tend to have some sort of showboating in them but "Shadow of a Doubt" feels like it is only about the showboating with the actual crime story being less important. Of course you wonder whether being a drunk means he is also a patsy in all this. And of course as an old flame the expected scenes surrounding the spark between them appear but are so ridiculously over the top with one culminating with a romp on a desk near the chalk outline of her dead husband being so bad it is laughable.īut then we also have the trouble that here we have a court case which is supposedly about Charley trying to get Angel off but then ends up all about the character of Charley, his almost arrogance in court whilst also the DA's defamation of character as he makes out he is an unfit lawyer. When Charley walks into his office and finds Robin standing there looking out of his window with a cigarette in hand it is like a femme fatale character from a 1940s film-noir has been dumped into a 90s movie. Against tremendous odds, Charley Sloan must find a way to prove to the jury that Angel Harwell might be innocent-to create in their minds a small but crucial shadow of a doubt.Part of the trouble with "Shadow of a Doubt" is the simple fact it is over the top from the word go and feels incredibly forced. Propelled by a desperate need to redeem himself, Charley descends into a shadowy world of murder and money, deceit and illusion. As the courtroom tension escalates, Charley discovers he is as much on trial as his client. ![]() But suddenly, Charley is swept back into the public spotlight when Robin Harwell, a woman he once loved, retains him to defend her stepdaughter, Angel, accused of murdering her millionaire father.ĭespite mounting accusations that question his competence, and despite frenzied opposition by a politically ambitious prosecutor, Charley is reluctantly drawn into defending Angel in what becomes a media circus. In the realistic and gritty tradition of The Verdict comes Shadow of a Doubt, an electric courtroom drama of immense power, based on the best-selling novel by Judge William Coughlin.Īctor Brian Dennehy plays Charley Sloan, a once-spectacular attorney and now a recovering alcoholic who hides from and fears his illustrious past. ![]()
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