Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most Dangerous Sin is the latest attempt to move Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment from novel to movie, and on the whole the result is quite satisfactory, at least in one important respect. Dostoevsky was the greatest master of suspense the literary world has ever known, and this element of the Russian's craft is admirably preserved in the precarious transition to film...
...However, Crime and Punishment, despite its weak ending, is one of the greatest novels ever written, and likewise The Most Dangerous Sin is far better than its soggy climax--in all, one of the best French films to come to the Brattle in quite a while...
...Manolios, the shepherd playing Jesus, finally leads the town to revolt against its leaders. Their revolt soon deflates, however, and they join their pope in a battle against the exiles which forces the Turkish Agha to deliver Manolios to death at the hands of his townspeople. Shocked by the crime, townsmen begin to join the exiles against the Turks...
...rebuttal to Murphy came from Butler himself, who in his introduction said that it was "no crime for a Governor to appoint a Republican," and expressed hope that local Democrats would settle their differences before the 1960 campaign. Butler admitted that he had more than once voted for a Republican candidate "in the belief that the particular man was a better candidate...
Compulsion. Meyer Levin's bestselling casebook of "The Crime of the Century," the Leopold-Loeb murder case of 1924, makes a tense, intelligent melodrama...