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What is it? It is a potty old party, the very model of what the aitch-adding British call a "maiden haunt." It is Comedienne Margaret Rutherford, 69 and still going strong (Passport to Pimlico; I'm All Right, Jack], and in this adaptation of an Agatha Christie chiller called 4:50 from Paddington she has a role that is custom-tailored to her somewhat peculiar measure...
...Innocents. A story of profound religious horror, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, has been diminished by Director Jack (Room at the Top) Clayton into a sophisticated psychiatric chiller. Deborah Kerr is exquisitely hysterical as the haunted heroine...
HOMICIDAL. The sleeper of 1961: a cheap ($250,000) chiller that turned out to be the most frightening film since Psycho-and what's more, nobody so far has guessed whodunit...
...Moscow, the Warsaw chiller was branded "false and fantastic." However the story really ended, the Politburo is apparently trying hard to prevent the rise of another Beria. It abolished the MVD, freed many of its prisoners, and handed over police functions to a Committee on State Security (KGB), which is supposed to be accountable to the party as a whole. In keeping with its friendly new face, the Kremlin last week appointed as its new KGB boss a model of the rising young Soviet-style executive. The new top cop: Vladimir Semichastny, 37, who has been the leader...
Write Me a Murder (by Frederick Knott) gives away its murderer (James Donald) in Act I without defrosting any of its suspense as a superior spine-chiller. British Playwright Knott, of Dial "M" for Murder fame, has worked a twist on the conventional whodunit by fashioning a will...