Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much about a jewel theft back in London, and the plot begins to fizz. Peter turns up, with a bullet wound, in an ancient spooky crypt. Hayley skips to the rescue. Showing an appetite for danger that 007 himself might envy, she is bound and gagged in a rat-infested granary, makes a wild leap to freedom on the rotating vanes of a windmill, cracks a rifle butt over a thug's skull, commandeers a speedboat and belts down a couple of drinks-all to help recover a fabulous emerald necklace...
Cayatte's fundamental conception, to present a twice-told tale in the form of a double feature, is mildly stimulating. Unhappily, the marriage his movies describe is immoderately dull. She is a rat fink, he is a mouse fink, and their life together is stinking cheese. After inhaling Anatomy of a Marriage (as the films are collectively called) for almost four hours, an audience can only numbly wonder how Cayatte could imagine that two bad movies would make a good...
Many a man is convinced that a witch lives under his roof. With the arrival of the present TV season, many another is probably wishing that he could exchange his incumbent hag for Elizabeth Montgomery. Pretty and blonde with a turned-up nose, she hardly suggests cauldrons full of rat guts and eels, but she plays a thoroughbred sorceress married to an advertising executive on ABC's Bewitched...
...somehow I found myself entering into Eddie's misperception. When his wife mourned, "Whatever happened we all done it," I half believed her, though I knew in my head, with Catherine, that Eddie was a rat who belonged in a sewer...
...with the lizards, mice, beetles or pelicans. He has discovered that the best way to mix with a species is to make oneself desire a female member of it." He follows a dog through town, almost becomes a dog, is "in any case no longer human." He kills a rat. He takes a long walk in the rain, sees a drowned man, tries to call his girl, gets drunk. Finally he goes the rest...