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...Knife in the Water begins against a feebly sunlit landscape in the lake region of Poland. A bored husband and wife are driving out for a day's sailing. They stop to pick up a brash young hitchhiker, whose insolence catalyzes their own hostility-and this three-cornered thriller quickly generates force. By the time they reach pierside, the two males are abristle, eying each other like cocks in a pit. "You're no match for me, but come aboard," taunts the older man. The boy accepts: "Ah, you want to carry on the game...
...aches to make it (Zygmunt Malanowicz). Comfortably bourgeois, the husband flaunts his car, his boat, his radio, his sailing skill, his worldly outlook and his trimly bikini'd wife (Jolanta Umecka).* The young bohemian have-not counters with raw vitality and his skill with a virile-looking switchblade knife...
...pampered as in West Germany. Erhard would like to reduce the benefits, which dangerously increase the cost of labor. But his party's left wing is so strongly in favor of the elaborate structure built by Konrad Adenauer that Erhard probably has no chance to use his knife in this field...
...This knife and gun business is nonsense-strictly amateur-night material," said one. Added a cop: "Valachi must be talking off the top of his head. We know that some of these things can only be hearsay because by his own testimony he was only small potatoes in the mob. He just wouldn't have been privy to what was happening...
...compliments to Mr. Darrach for his superb article "A Religion of Film" [Sept. 20]. It leaves only one thing to be desired: the names of the young lovers in Knife in the Water. How could TIME put an attractive couple on the cover and fail to mention their names...