Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz from Marcel Achard's Paris hit, L'ldiote, is a sex-cum-murder comedy. Between them, Stars Julie Harris and Walter Matthau keep the winy wit at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature, and pour it to a farce connoisseur's taste...
Patrons of A Shot in the Dark must be prepared to swallow some dialogue with the rugged flavor of vin ordinaire, and the end of the play tends to dribble away. But most of this Gallic murder-comedy is estate-bottled, kept at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature and poured to a farce-connoisseur's taste...
...indefatigable hiker, he walked four miles to his courtroom every morning until he was past 75: "I shall continue the practice until that final morning when, fittingly. I shall fall backward head over heels down the courthouse steps." He detested barking dogs and chewing gum,, once assaulted a quailing law clerk with: "Sonny! We have come to a parting of the ways. I smell Spearmint again." But in some rare areas his ignorance was monumental. "I don't know what Mickey Mantle is or does," he once complained...
...Faces of Justice, by Sybille Bedford. A sort of Baedeker of the European courtroom by a writer of extraordinary insight...
...Faces of Justice, by Sybille Bedford. A sort of Baedeker of the European courtroom by a novelist (The Legacy) and writer of extraordinary insight, who shows how, in various countries, man treats man in the grip...