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...eight-year-old girl who, when crossed or cornered, indulges in murder. But its various homicides do not begin to exhaust its horrors. Slowly, tormentedly, the little girl's mother becomes aware of her daughter's nature; then she discovers that her own mother was a mass murderess also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 20, 1954 | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

Henze's plot takes the old story of Manon Lescaut forward to the Paris of 1950 and turns its willful heroine into a strumpet and murderess, her brother into a pimp and thief. Henze's music is largely in a clangorous twelve-tone technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shocker in Rome | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...courtroom farce in which a bombastic attorney (played by famed Director Vittorio De Sica) successfully defends a voluptuous murderess (Gina Lollobrigida) by playing on the emotions of a susceptible judge and jury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 15, 1953 | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...Convinced that the tragedy had not been her fault, the police did not even book Mrs. Gutheridge. Later that night, however, the phone rang in her small apartment. When she picked up the receiver, a young man's voice asked harshly: "How does it feel to be a murderess, Mrs. Gutheridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: On a Horrible Road | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...thriller, she is a spoiled young woman (Jean Simmons) who, for no very clear reason, plots to murder her stepmother (Barbara O'Neil). She accomplishes her purpose by tampering with the reverse gear on her stepmother's automobile so that it backs over a cliff. Accidentally, the murderess' father (Herbert Marshall) also happens to be in the car at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

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