Word: bluebeards
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...later, he sat on a pile of earth and stared in disgust at the putrid and dismembered remains of Belle Crippen. Some months later, Belle's husband, Dr. Hawley Crippen, was brought to trial for her murder. The penny press played him up as Britain's own Bluebeard, and the scandal provided some of the least savory sensations of the Edwardian era. Dr. Crippen was convicted, and on Nov. 23, 1910, he went to the gallows, protesting his innocence...
Lemmon's lecher is hilarious-partly because Lemmon is a marvelously skillful comedian, partly because he looks like a boy scout playing Bluebeard. And his satyr is a satire: a Pan in deadpan, a caricature of every young goat who can't say naaaaa...
...course of these, the reader tentatively gathers that Hippolyte has been a student and saloniere in Paris, acted in films (he was a natural as Bluebeard's confessor), acquired a mistress whom he arranges to have seduced by delivery boys and other women and whom he finally, in a scene rich in unconscious comedy, sells for 13,000 old francs to a merchant in Tangier. Then there is a wife; he seems to have some notion that he has murdered her. Has he or hasn't he? By this time, the reader may feel that he has been...
...clipping along at 80% to 90% capacity-despite the fact that 1,293 new rooms were added last year with another 895 abuilding. In most of the Virgin Islands the summer trade runs only 10% to 15% behind the winter season; St. Thomas' three biggest hotels-the Hilton, Bluebeard's Castle and Caribbean Beach-are all reserved into September. And Jamaica, though famed as a winter playground, now draws almost half its 200,000 yearly visitors during the summer season...
Landru. Another Chabrol film, with a script by Francoise Sagan, this one is a kind of comedy of murders, based on the story of the French Bluebeard who killed off ten women during World War 1. Two of the victims: Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan...