Word: murders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conscience v. Party Line. The immediate issue was capital punishment for murder. But to the House of Lords, and to Prime Minister Clement Attlee's government, there was a larger stake. It was the dramatic recurrence of the old feud between the hereditary Lords and the elected Commons...
There had been a murder, or had there? She did not die at once, not dying as in death. She lived five days, five days dying, each day a dying but not dying as in death...
Whodunit? Author Gertrude Stein never comes right out and says, and a second reading of her posthumous Blood on the Dining-Room Floor doesn't help much. This curious fling at mystery-story writing by the late expatriate mumbo-jumboist never even admits that a murder is a murder is a murder. And there is no detective in the story to clear things...
...main plot: Orson, a "philosophical" merchant seaman who finds it "very sanitary to be broke," signs for a long yacht cruise because Rita Hayworth, who much prefers to be filthy rich, will be aboard. For love of her, he also signs a phony confession to a supposedly phony murder. When the murder turns out to be real, Orson finds himself caught in a frame and the toils of the law. He escapes, literally, through an optical illusion: the real villains of the piece mow each other down in an amusement park's House of Mirrors...
...limp under such feeble abracadabra, but sometimes it stands on end at a weird glimpse of real black magic. Everett Sloane, as Rita's lame and jealous husband, crawls through the picture as horribly as a spider; and Glenn Anders, as a man who madly plots his own murder, has developed a soundless laugh as chilling as a razor's edge scraped across plate glass. Orson has done a capable job with his brogue, a flashy one with the camera. But not all of his magic works. He makes a blonde out of his onetime wife, redhead Rita...