Word: boileau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worked up from a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, the French team that wrote Diabolique and Demo-niaque, this picture tells what happens to a victim of vertigo (James Stewart) when he meets a dizzy blonde (Kim Novak). When she goes round in circles, he goes round in circles too-until he falls. Jimmy is cast as a gumshoe who has drawn the enviable assignment of keeping a private eye on Kim. The lady's husband (Tom Helmore) is afraid that his bride, in the grip of a suicidal depression, may head for the deep...
...woven and romance prevails," proclaims a voice which seems to come from the heart of the chateau itself (it is the recorded voice of Charles Boyer, via 28 loudspeakers, speaking a text by André Maurois). "Here all France is assembled; not only the court, but also Racine, Boileau, Molière [and] ambassadors from all over the world, who have come to see the greatest King on earth...
...real life, Poet André de Chénier (1762-94), called by French Critic Sainte-Beuve the greatest writer of French classic verse after Racine and Boileau, spoke out against the revolutionists' bloody excesses, was eventually executed for conspiring while in prison...
...Woman Who Was No More is an offbeat French mystery. It has no hero, and its principal character is an intellectual pygmy who is as real as mud and just as unenterprising. His creators, French Authors Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, have built him into the base of a very French triangle of adulterous villains and victims. They make of it a crisply written, ingenious novel of suspense that is calculated to grip a reader right up to its sardonic last line...
...mystery is not likely to puzzle the reader as much as poor Ravinel, but Authors Boileau and Narcejac keep the reader guessing the rest of it to the Gallic...