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...resembles a photographed stage show. Most of the action takes place on a single set, and the chief plot development takes place in the gunman's mind. Director Rudolph Maté (famed as a cameraman for such pictures as Carl Dreyer's Passion of Joan of Arc, René Glair's The Last Millionaire, Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent) keeps his camera on the move through the rooms of Cobb's cottage, and occasionally overcomes the static effect. But the picture loses sight of the fact that all the intimate details of a psychoanalysis...
...Died. René Benjamin, 63, Royalist French novelist and essayist, who charmed his countrymen during World War I with Gaspard and Grandgoujon, outraged them during the occupation with Le Printemps Tragique, an attack on the Third Republic; following an operation; in Tours, France...
...while the civil servants' strike looked serious to everyone except Finance Minister René Mayer, in whose department it started, and who had other things to worry about. When the strikers presented their demands to Mayer, he did nothing at all about it. In fact, he left for his Normandy home to nurse his ulcer...
...Loony Now? By midweek Pierrot and René had knocked over a suburban bar (for about $30) and staged at least two other holdups. Amid confident press speculation that they had probably fled to the country until the heat was off, the two, posing as detectives, then called at the fashionable Neuilly apartment of Joseph de Bisschop, a transport company executive, and walked out with 100,000 francs (about $300) in cash and some $1,400 worth of jewelry...
Last weekend a plainclothesman sighted Crazy Pete and René drinking with a girl in a Montmartre bistro. René saw the detective edging toward a phone, and suspected the lady friend of betraying him. He shot at her across the table and missed. While bystanders helped the cop subdue René, Pierrot made another escape, out the front door...