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Monique (by Dorothy and Michael Blankfort) is a child of the same French novel-The Woman Who Was No More -as the film Diabolique. The two are by no means twins, however. In the stage chiller, when Fernand Ravinel's wife refuses to dissolve their unhappy marriage through divorce, his doctor-mistress Monique suggests dissolving it through murder. As the efficient Monique drowns the wife in a bathtub and then makes her appear to drown in a stream-a Lady Macbeth superintending an Ophelia's fale -a scared Fernand quivers like jelly and wobbles like a tenpin...
Hecht first saw Lancaster act in Burt's only stage venture, the 1945 Broadway flop A Sound of Hunting. They began talking independent production immediately, and two years later they had filmed the B-minus chiller Kiss the Blood off My Hands...
...Bedtime Chillers. Roughhousing with the second shift, Lou Marx likes to pummel and chase them frantically up and down the three-story house, allows the boys to squirt water guns and smash toys to their hearts' content. (Idella feels the boys are working off their aggressive instincts.) Once a week the Marx brothers pile into their parents' 13-ft.-wide bed for the night. There they are treated to a bedtime-story session in which Marx spins chiller-dillers about such bad guys as a deformed villain who sautes children's eyeballs for supper. The "mean-man stories...
...world premiere, wearing a white suit and red tie, was Composer Britten, 40. On a stark stage, British Tenor Peter Pears sang the prologue ("It is a curious story. I have it written in faded ink . . ."). From then on. the plot followed the outlines of the Henry James chiller about a young governess in an English country house who attempts to protect her young charges from the evil doings of a pair of phantoms. The opera's 16 scenes flashed quickly across the stage., building awareness of horror as the red-haired Quint appeared in the tower, the green...
Hell Below Zero (Warwick; Columbia) is a hot-weather chiller that strives not so much to entertain the moviegoer as to air-condition him. Thus the scene shifts quickly to the Antarctic Ocean, where Alan Ladd is chasing whales and Joan Tetzel. Unfortunately, he catches the whales first, and though watching blubber slowly being stripped from a whale may be educational, it does not sharpen an appetite for the love scenes...