Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MOMENT OF FEAR (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Thirteen years after the fact, a conscience-stricken woman confesses the murder of her husband. Nina Foch, Dean Stockwell and Gary Merrill star in the first of selections from past series...
...effective performance. That Pedro Armendariz seems better as a Mexican revolutionary (his traditional role) than as Bond's Turkish sidekick is largely due to his limited versatility as an actor. Red Granitski, the homicidal fiend of the novel, has been tamed down to a cold war equivalent of a Murder, Inc., thug--the change makes him much more frightening. Unfortunately, the fellow selected to play Grant fails to capitalize on his good fortune, and so what could have been a near-monumental struggle between two men of Bond's stamp comes off as the usual cool hero versus ranting villain...
Doubtless Golding intends the reader to become involved in Jocelin's suffering, but the requirements of allegory constantly work against complexity of character. In order to generalize Jocelin's high, spiritual pre-occupations, Golding leaves out all but the formal vestiges of Christianity. Like Becket in Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral the priest uses paternal, beatific language; but Christ, salvation, and sin are carefully left out. Golding merely gives Jocelin the symptoms of faith, and leaves it to the reader to conjure up some kind of psychological reality from such cryptic sommentary as "Joy, fire, joy." Furthermore the artificial...
...investigation netted one suspect, a 54-year-old janitor who surrendered to police and was charged with killing another prostitute, red-haired Irene Lockwood, whose nude body was found in the Thames last month. The murder scare had another unexpected payoff for police. Fearful that a Jack the Stripper was still at large, whores stayed home by the thousands, cleaning London's sidewalks more effectively than all the vice squads in Britain...
...Tempt the Devil. Over a midnight snack, lush Marina Vlady mulls over legal problems with her lawyer-lover, Pierre Brasseur. She has recently disposed of her wealthy husband, neatly pinned the murder on his nurse-mistress. But things aren't working out according to plan. "I wish I hadn't bothered with the serum," she pouts. Then, "Oh well . . . next time." As a girl whose Mona Lisa face masks the soul of a Borgia, Actress Vlady almost turns Devil into an elegant spoof of French justice. Brasseur, too, seems drolly aware that Justice is a lady...