Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLOWUP. Actor David Hemmings comes into sharp focus as a pop photog who happens to take a picture of a murder (committed by Vanessa Redgrave) that he blows up, and which in turn blows up his whole mod scene...
...LAST ONE LEFT, by John MacDonald. A busy, well-populated story of skulduggery at sea, tersely told by the current Big Daddy (53 books) of murder-suspense thrillers...
...Fixer is a semi-historical account of the life of a Jewish handyman in Russia who was falsely accused of ritual murder...
...King Claudius might ask. Despite MacBird's slanderous premise, the answer is: amazingly little. Playwright Garson fuzzes up the key event to the point that it cannot be taken seriously as an intimation of reality. Shots are heard, but MacBird, unlike Macbeth, is never seen with the murder weapon; nothing really connects him with the crime, except a panting desire for advancement and a few veiled hints and innuendoes...
...townspeople take turns moving into the spotlight to give an account, not so much of the murder, as of their own thwarted hopes and twisted lives. The 34-year-old deserted wife of a café owner has been sleeping with her handy man, a boy young enough to be her son. Another woman, admired for supporting her ancient, mentally enfeebled mother, actually beats the old lady. Eldritch also has its girlish flibbertigibbets (Susan Tyrrell and Katherine Bruce), its freak, a hunchbacked girl, and its leper, a whiskery derelict whom the local toughs mock with cries of "baaa!, baaa!" because...