Word: landru
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beginning with the murder of Bobby Franks by Leopold and Loeb, ending with the case of Henri Landru, the Parisian Bluebeard, the beok deals, by the way, with the murder of Rasputin, the assassination of the Romanoffs at Ekaterinburg, the case of Steinie Morison, the Stockholm Dynamite Murder, and the Rosenthal murder in New York...
...proprietor of the cararet for evicting him and against the barman for refusing to serve him with drinks. No sooner had the Prince's suit been filed than Maître Moro Giafferi, most famous of all French lawyers, offered his services to the Prince. Maître Giafferi defended Caillaux, Landru (the French Bluebeard) and Mme. Bessarabe...
...film-the everyday life of stars, directors and camp followers-these are entertainingly and faithfully depicted. In fact about the only thing omitted is a close-up of the interior of, say, Mr. Ince's mind. Of course the only blown-in-the-bottle villain (Landru, who has a habit of murdering his wives for their insurance) comes from outside of the pictures; the " wickedest woman in the movies " is proven to be engagingly aseptic; and even the director just talks elegant. But it's worth seeing, if only to view Chaplin in ordinary garb...