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Write Me a Murder (by Frederick Knott) gives away its murderer (James Donald) in Act I without defrosting any of its suspense as a superior spine-chiller. British Playwright Knott, of Dial "M" for Murder fame, has worked a twist on the conventional whodunit by fashioning a will...
...each other on the Quemoy-Matsu question stirred up in Debate No. 2. In Albuquerque, Nixon warned that Kennedy's proposed abandonment of the two Chinese offshore islands would be "the road to war, the road to surrender. We must not give up an inch of territory." At Knott's Berry Farm, near Long Beach, Calif., he added: "We left the policy of retreat and defeat behind us in 1953, and we're not going back to it in 1960." Kennedy delivered a full-dress speech to a Democratic dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Said...
Father Bowles finds the troubler of his peace in Catherine Knott, "a researcher for a national news magazine," whose religiosity is so intense that "even on the hottest August days when she wore a sleeveless dress, or a thin frock, she looked like a formally attired Girl Scout." Although she seems to bear a sign, "Catholic virgin at work. Do not disturb," Father Bowles fails to heed the warning. He accepts a winter rendezvous in a secluded park corner, and when Catherine slips to her knees in the snow, Father Bowles kisses her. Like a badge of shame her lipstick...
...servant to an old man named Knott, but his duties are vague, and he and his master have never exchanged a word. That is Author Beckett's way of showing the measureless distance between man and his fellow. But Watt's distance from himself is even greater. Not for him the prescription, "Know thyself"; the little he knows about himself he hates. He also hates other things, especially the earth and the sky. The closest he has ever come to companionship is with a man who shares his hatred of birds and love of rats. To the rats...
...role he played on Broadway for some 500 performances, Evans decided that he preferred his wife's money to his wife (Rosemary Harris), then saw his plans go agley in a monstrous inversion of his custom-built plot. Brilliantly adapted for TV by its playwright, Frederick Knott, Dial M was a marvel of mobility, leaped from pub to club to living room with movie-like ease, confirmed Producer-Director George Schaefer as a Hitchcockian master of the telltale closeup shot, and provided a triumphant finish for Hall of Fame's fifth year as a series of drama spectaculars...