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...loves him struggles and connives to find the evidence that will clear him. There?s also a detective who is at first skeptical, then accepting, of the man?s innocence. (And [SPOILER] her partner in detection, who is played by the top-billed actor, turns out to be the killer...
...movie has a pretty twist in store. [SPOILER] Nice-guy Marty is indeed the killer - the janitor had let him out of his room, he went to Mavis? place hoping for an anniversary reunion and, when she rudely rejected his affections, he strangled her with his scarf (overtones of Franchot Tone!) - but he doesn?t remember because his alcoholic stupor blotted out the deed. Now that all is clear, he wants to save the husband of the woman he loves. A killer racing against time to turn himself in: that?s a poignant twist...
...being a thriller, they have to stay there to discover that the murderer was [SPOILER] a cuckolded husband who hypnotized Vince to kill the man she was fooling around with. Vince still isn?t sure if he did it: ?I?ve got an innocent man?s conscience in a killer?s body...
...movie?s plot hews closely to the book?s. There the heroine was Julie Killeen (the killer colleen); here, Julie Kohler (pronounced ?col?re,? the French word for anger). As Julie, Jeanne Moreau shows no emotion as she executes these men (with a push, a poison, suffocation, an arrow, a knife). The love that spurs her on is not so much post-coital as post-mortem. ?I?m already dead,? she says. ?I died the day he did. When I?m done I?ll join...
...film version has a softer, woozily sentimental view of the bridal couple; it shows them running through a meadow in ecstatic slow motion - really. And it dispenses with the novel?s resolution. Woolrich?s killer was the best friend of two of the men; in the film (where he?s played by Jean-Claude Brialy) his function is merely to cast a net of suspicion on the bride. [SPOILER] In the film, the killer is one of the group of five (brutish Daniel Boulanger), who is put in jail before Julie can kill him. Julie materializes at the artist...