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Witness for the Prosecution is based on a short story written by English crime story writer, Dame Agatha Christie [1890-1976]. It was first published as Trader Hands in the January 31, 1925 issue of Flynn's Weedkly. The short story was adapted into a play in 1953.

After the verdict of not guilty, Christine [Marlene Dietrich] admits that she was the scarred woman who met Sir Wilfred [Charles Laughton] at the train station the previous night and gave him the letters that she wrote. She fabricated a lover named Max to marr her reputation so the jury would hate her and not believe her prior testimony, which really was true. That is, Leonard [Tyrone Power] really was guilty. This was her strategy to get him off because she loved him. Leonard comes in all cocky after winning, and the young dark haired woman who had been sitting with the nurse happily runs over to "Len". She was the clinging woman at the travel agency with him (and his girlfriend). He is cruel and snide to Christine, casting her aside, but reassuring her that he would pay for her perjury defense. Christine then pulls a knife and stabs and kills him. Sir Wilfred says he needs to prepare the defense for the trial of Christine Vole. He says at one point that she didn't murder Leonard, she executed him.