Word: muscari
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Later, however, one woman does confess and all the truth comes out. Muscari is hailed as a great martyr "who taught us all to tell the truth...
Action returns to the present and a townsman, gazing up at Muscari's statue, says "People now are much more honest than 70 years ago." The statue, in a final gesture, shrugs his marble shoulders in dismay...
...Finally Muscari promises the priest he will not die for the sins of the townspeople if one of them will admit the crime for which Muscari has accepted the blame. This never happens, and Muscari goes to his death. The local grocer sells salami and seat cushions to spectators at the execution...
Hitchcock's dialogue is consistently well-paced (if not delivered with consistent smoothness) and often piquant with dry wit. "You have the sensitivity of an artichoke" Muscari tells his jailer soon before the execution, and then is told he has visitors. "Are they publishers?" he asks quickly, but they are only advocates...
John Davis as Muscari is magnificent. His sense of timing is superb, and greatly enhances Hitchcock's best lines, which are his. His movements are graceful and stylized just enough to lend the air of a fable to the play. And his eyes give a performance all their own: sometimes soulful, sometimes brilliant, often haughty...