Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friday, August 14 BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Each week Millionaire-Detective Gene Barry rounds up a collection of murder victims and suspects played by veteran actors, contemporary celebrities and/or glamor girls of recent vintage. This week the line-up includes Chill Wills, Ed Wynn and Broderick Crawford. Repeat...
...SHOT IN THE DARK. As a maladroit inspector from the Sureté, Peter Sellers pursues Elke Sommer through a multiple murder case and turns up fresh evidence that he is one of the funniest actors alive...
...agents who moved swiftly into the case, the utter senselessness of such a murder was in itself an important clue. They did not have to dig far to discover that Athens is a center of activities for one of the most senseless organizations imaginable: the Ku Klux Klan. Sure enough, a little more detective work led them to one James Lackey, 28, an Athens gas station attendant. According to U.S. authorities, Lackey confessed that he was in on the ambush and implicated three fellow Klansmen-Garage Owner Herbert Guest, 37, a short, fat gun fancier; textile Yarn Plucker Cecil Myers...
From here on the story becomes chaotic, centering on the murder of tutor by tutee (quite a dramatic step, actually, for so calculating a fellow). Although the corpse is discovered at film's end, the fate of the young man, happily, is left a question mark. What, if anything, this is supposed to show, is not at all clear, nor even whether it's a case of cleverness or indecision on the director's part; but at least the viewer is spared the disappointment of seeing vice rendered its just desserts...
...black plastic bags, now named only X-1, X-2, X-3, bear a mute testimony to the perverse of virtue paid in Mississippi. A land characterized, surely victimized, by its simple almost elemental way of life has replied to change in the most simple and elemental way--murder...