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...suspense and humor wane only when Sleuth's ambitious author. Anthony Shaffer, overshoots his thematic boundaries. Shaffer tries to make Sleuth a philosophical discussion of conflicting honesty and fantasy in his characters' self-images, but this serious speculation is distinctly out of place. At its best, from the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle to Agatha Christie, the genre has recounted imaginary adventures of imaginary people, largely, ignoring the problems of real life. Fortunately the play's simplistic message about seeing ourselves as we really are rarely interferes with the progress from clue to clue...
Screenplay by PETER SHAFFER...
FRENZY Directed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK Screenplay by ANTHONY SHAFFER...
...latest to fall victim to the strangler are the ex-wife (Barbara LeighHunt) and the girl friend (Anna Massey) of a former R.A.F. ace, Richard Blaney (Jon Finch). The screenplay by Anthony Shaffer, author of the Broadway thriller Sleuth, almost too painstakingly builds up the circumstantial evidence that points to the ex-flyer as the killer. After Blaney is in custody he finds out what the audience has known all along: that he has been framed by his good pal Bob (Barry Foster...
Hound's action takes place in a theater on opening night. It is a spoof of an Agatha Christie thriller, and Stoppard handles it with prankish zest, though it lacks the urbane comic polish and spine-prickling tremors that Anthony Shaffer put into his Christie takeoff, Sleuth. The subplot concerns two drama critics who observe and comment on the play and eventually get actively drawn into it at no small risk. Here Stoppard is sly and wry, and one may guess that he views critics with bemused affection and subdued contempt...