Hostile Witness, by Jack Roffey. The most convincing corpse in this suspense drama is the play. Playwright Roffey may not know much about thrillers, but he certainly can throw a cataleptic trance.
The chief sleepwalker is a distinguished barrister (Ray Milland), in the dock on a murder rap for killing a judge. Milland had threatened to kill the man responsible for the hit-and-run death of his daughter, and the judge was a bum driver—certainly enough circumstantial evidence to suit anybody. After a lifetime of scrutinizing the criminal mind, Milland is such a right honorable chump that he harbors on his own staff...
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