9/18/2023 0 Comments Watch movie witness 1985![]() ![]() ![]() Kelly McGillis, the young actress who plays the Amish widow, has a kind of luminous simplicity about her it is refreshing and even subtly erotic to see a woman who doesn't subscribe to all the standard man-woman programmed responses of modern society. Harrison Ford has never given a better performance in a movie. But all three elements work together so well that something organic is happening here we're inside this story. The ways of life in the Amish community are so well observed that they have a documentary feel. ![]() The love story by itself would be exciting. It is masterful filmmaking, The thriller elements alone would command our attention. In the whole middle section of this movie, he shows the man from the city and the simple Amish women within the context of the Amish community. "Witness" was directed by Peter Weir, the gifted Australian director of " The Year of Living Dangerously." He has a strong and sure feeling for places, for the land, for the way that people build their self-regard by the way they do their work. It's about two independent, complicated people who begin to love each other because they have shared danger, they work well together, they respect each other - and because their physical attraction for each other is so strong it almost becomes another character in the movie. It's not one of those romances where the man and woman fall into each other's arms because their hormones are programmed that way. Now it turns into an intelligent and perceptive love story. Up until the return to Pennsylvania, "Witness" has been a slick, superior thriller. He manages to drive them all back to the Amish lands of Pennsylvania before collapsing from loss of blood.Īnd it's at this point, really, that the movie begins. His life and the lives of the widow and her son are in immediate danger. ![]() Then it turns out that the police department itself is implicated in the killing. He stages lineups hoping the kid can spot the murderer. Harrison Ford plays the tough big city detective who gets assigned to the case. In the train station in Philadelphia, the little boy witnesses a murder. His widow and young son leave on a train journey. Hoffman (Costumer), Michael John Meehan (Location Manager), Craig Edgar (Set Designer), Hope Williams (Script Supervisor), Bette Iverson (Hair Supervisor), Michael Hancock (Makeup Supervisor), Shari Feldman (Costume Supervisor) and others.An Amish man dies. Chapman (Assistant Editor), Cynnie Troup (Script Supervisor), Ted Swanson (Production Manager), Richard Stone (Supervising Music Editor), Michael W. Wilder (Stunt Coordinator), Bob Minor (Stunts), Gary Epper (Stunt Coordinator), Anderson Martin (Stunts), David McGiffert (First Assistant Director), Michael Klastorin (Publicist), Joan E. Nineberg (Sound Effects Editor), Andrew Patterson (Sound Effects Editor), Bruce Richardson (Sound Effects Editor), George Watters II (Supervising Sound Effects Editor), Dianne Crittenden (Casting), Wendy Stites (Associate Producer), Vic Armstrong (Stunt Double), David Bombyk (Co-Producer), Glenn R. Crutcher III (Sound Effects Editor), Don Digirolamo (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Robert Glass (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Cecelia Hall (Supervising Sound Effects Editor), Frank Howard (Sound Effects Editor), Robert Knudson (Sound Re-Recording Mixer), Alan L. Feldman (Producer), Maurice Jarre (Original Music Composer), John Seale (Director of Photography), Thom Noble (Editor), Stan Jolley (Production Design) more. Camburn (Amish), William Francis (Town Man), Tom Kennedy (Ticket Seller), Ardyth Kaiser (Couple in Garage), Thomas Quinn (Couple in Garage), Eugene Dooley (Detective), Victoria Scott D'Angelo (Detective), Richard Chaves (Detective), Tim Moyer (Detective), Nino Del Buono (Detective), James Frank Clark (Detective), Joseph Kelly (Detective), Norman Carter (Detective), Craig Clement (Detective) and others. King (Amish), Paul Goss (Amish), Annemarie Vallerio (Amish), Bruce E. Nuss (Amish), Emily Tracy (Amish), Fred Steinharter (Amish), John D. Schaeffer), Maria Bradley (Schaeffer's Daughter), Rozwill Young (T-Bone), Paul S. Yoder), Ed Crowley (Sheriff), Timothy Carhart (Zenovich), Sylvia Kauders (Tourist Lady), Marian Swan (Mrs. , Brent Jennings (Carter), Patti LuPone (Elaine), Angus MacInnes (Fergie), Frederick Rolf (Stoltzfus), Viggo Mortensen (Moses Hochleitner), John Garson (Bishop Tchantz), Beverly May (Mrs. John Book), Kelly McGillis (Rachel Lapp), Josef Sommer (Chief Paul Schaeffer), Lukas Haas (Samuel Lapp), Jan Rubeš (Eli Lapp), Alexander Godunov (Daniel Hochleitner), Danny Glover (McFee) more. ![]()
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