Word: compartmentalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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It is night, Thrown together in a sleeping compartment on the 10:30 from Marseilles are a frustrated clerk obsessed with sex, a flirty perfume company representative, a pretty girl leaving home, and a small-time TV actress scared of middle age. An awkward but friendly young stowaway naps briefly...
Although powerful and highly theatrical, the play has its problems. Strindberg was interested in dramatic conflict and theatrical tension, not in plot, and his plays have a loose form and pay little attention to careful characterization. Frequently he would resort to conventional melodrama. A modern audience finds it difficult to...
Back to the Classics. Italians also pointed the way in safety, with two experimental cars: the PF Sigma, designed by the late Sergio Pininfarina, and the Secura, designed by the research branch of Quattroruote, the Italian auto magazine. Both cars have sliding doors that cannot spring open on impact, collapsible...
The Sleeping Car Murder is only the first of the multiple killings in this straightforward French thriller. A sultry perfume saleswoman is strangled in a six-person compartment aboard the Marseille-Paris express, and several of her companions are dead before Police Inspector Yves Montand corners the killer for the...
Murder follows a heavily signposted route, but its cast has esprit to spare. As usual, Simone Signoret leaves a tingle in the air, though she is done in when the plot is only half unraveled. Preternaturally sensitive to the supreme folly of being human, Simone (Mme. Montand in private life...