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...from September to December 1960 three incidents that led quickly to suicides. The first involved a soldier of the Artillery Company, Kung Ho-yu, an excellent League member and a "five-excellence" soldier. On Aug. 25 he stole three yuan ($1.80), and on the 30th of the same month confessed his wrong. Someone, while charging him with previous thefts, cried: "If you freely confess, we shall be lenient with you, but if you deny these charges we shall be very severe." Kung showed that his feelings were deeply and bitterly stirred, and that night, when he was on sentry duty...
...Connor got a schooling of sorts in the Irish Republican Army and Dublin jails during the '20s, before turning out tiis wry, dry tales of family life, fisticuffs and "coorting" on the old sod, honing a comic sense of Irish blather and illogic, which once led him to confess that like the I.R.A.'s "make-believe revolution, I had to content myself with a make-believe education, and the curious thing is that it was the make-believe that succeeded...
...Preternaturally sensitive to the supreme folly of being human, Simone (Mme. Montand in private life) plays a third-rate actress who mocks herself as "an overripe hag out for a good time" with a young student (Jean-Louis Trin-tignant). She feels guilty about nothing until she has to confess that even a woman of distinction must sometimes travel in a crowded second-class compartment to save money. As another hunted passenger, Catherine Allegret (Signoret's daughter and lookalike) portrays a bumbling young innocent without seeming too defenseless about...
...questioning period would have to be tape recorded, and coercive practices on the part of the police would be prohibited. The defendent could not be kept from seeing his lawyer, but would be free to confess without council if he wished...
Still, one wishes that Tigar and Koelb had been able to avoid such anachronisms as "high muckamucks" and "better dead than red." And I confess to a sneaking preference for Bentley's title, The Private Life of the Master Race, which so perfectly suggests the wealth of Brechtian irony this production missed...