Word: adultress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems typical of French crime films, but as soon as Maigret appears, the weird story begins to emerge. As the manhunt runs its two-hour course, Maigret captures two murderers, an adultress, her gigolo, and the Marais Killer's possessive mother. Also in this line-up are an unfortunate butcher and a petty criminal who consents to act as a murder suspect...
...earning money, which will be the only lawful and pleasing thing in the eyes of God." And it is true that other passions, such as those which lead us to the sins of the flesh, remains condemned by human law. In New England and in other states, an adultress or an unwed mother can go to prison. The simple sin of fornication--denounced by the family and neighbors of a girl who has one or two lovers--is punished in the same...
...sentimental favorite among the less important characters is Phillippa Bevans' performance as Lady Jasper Fidget, one of the ladies who partakes of Horner's favors. Miss Bevans brings an unexpected matronly air to the part of an adultress and delivers her lines with invincible good nature befitting her portly appearance. Like Mr. Ritchard she puts more into the part than Wycherley called...