Word: crime
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Intermission. The charge against Mossadegh: plotting to overthrow Iran's constitutional government. The crime is punishable by death, but in Iran it is not customary to execute convicted men over...
John Forsythe, the writer of a television program called Crime of the Week, falls into the habit of fooling around with a blonde (Kathleen Hughes) instead of going dutifully home in the late afternoon. When he tries to break the habit, the blonde breaks the bad news: she wants $2,500 or she will tell his wife. The night of the payoff the blonde has a run-in with two other men-her husband (John Verros) and the head researcher of the writer's program (Edward G. Robinson), another of the many beaux to her string. Early next morning...
From there on out, any experienced moviegoer will know that: i) the murder will be chosen as "Crime of the Week"; 2) the writer and the researcher will reveal their intimacy with the deceased by curious slips in the course of the program; and 3) the murderer will finally be trapped into confessing his crime before a television camera he does not know to be "live." Nevertheless, the film (owing something to the superior mystery novel by Max Simon Ehrlich on which it is based) at times conveys amusingly how life looks through the other end of the television tube...
Your "Massacre of Kibya" [Oct. 26] made me boil with indignation at the crime-and at you! Were not the facts tragic enough? Why the inflammatory embellishment? . . . The blood bath at Kibya cannot be justified on any grounds; yet the burden of guilt must be shared by the Arab nations whose refusal to meet Israel at the conference table is keeping the wounds of war open in the troubled Near East...
...simple and deadly as the flight of a poisoned arrow. Its hero is Marius, a French sea captain who has lost his master's ticket for running a merchant ship into a known minefield during World War II, and whom rumor accuses of some greater, vaguer crime. By day he haunts the shipping offices of Marseille in his greasy old captain's uniform, cringing and wheedling for another command. By night he gets roaring drunk and tries to check his conscience and his failure at the local brothel...