Word: murders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just received a letter which purports to throw some light on Belgrad's murder of Stefan Radic and his comrades. ... All eyewitnesses agree that S. Radic was very quiet that day and has not called "pigs!" the Government Deputies...
Avala reported Stefan Raditch to have provoked Government Deputies by shouting at them: "You are not men! YOU ARE SWINE!" That his remark does not constitute provocation for murder, among Jugoslavs, was indicated by TIME's comment that, " 'swine' is almost the favorite epithet bandied in Balkan parliaments...
...Oliver Hazard Perry Garrett, onetime crack reporter on the New York World. The above seduction scene causes a gentleman crook named Heliotrope Harry (Clive Brook) to kill the man in the bedroom and have nothing more to do with the woman, his wife. He goes to jail for murder, is released years later. His major problem is to keep his grown-up daughter away from the evil influence of his wife. Success crowns his efforts when both he and his wife are killed in an absurd climax...
...Perfect Crime. "The greatest detective in the world" (Clive Brook) retires because criminals are so stupid. He will show them how; he commits "the perfect crime," a murder without a single clew. But finally, he is forced to confess in order to save the life of an innocent man. It is a thoroughly insipid film. To critical audiences, the crime was by no means perfect. The acting of Clive Brook and Irene Rich was exasperating. The "talkie" parts were atrocious, partly faked...
Patrick Kearney, who wrote the first two acts of the play, was consistent enough to be frankly and fearfully melodramatic. The cast is scattered through the theatre in reckless, impertinent profusion and the technique of The Miracle and murder mysteries is carried so far as to include a sidewalk revival meeting before the final...