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Murder follows a heavily signposted route, but its cast has esprit to spare. As usual, Simone Signoret leaves a tingle in the air, though she is done in when the plot is only half unraveled. Preternaturally sensitive to the supreme folly of being human, Simone (Mme. Montand in private life) plays a third-rate actress who mocks herself as "an overripe hag out for a good time" with a young student (Jean-Louis Trin-tignant). She feels guilty about nothing until she has to confess that even a woman of distinction must sometimes travel in a crowded second-class compartment...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). An actress (Simone Signoret) and a playwright (George Maharis) feud over a script...
Some Hollywood movies tried for foreign forms; for example, Sidney Lumet's The Pawnbroker, self-conscious despite Rod Steiger's virtuoso performance. Ship of Fools, by the overrated Stanley Kramer, was saved by the performances of three foreign stars, Simone Signoret, Vivien Leigh and Oskar Werner. Nothing But a Man, on the other hand, was persuasively unpretentious: it took a stronger, warmer, more objective look at contemporary Negro life in the U.S. than any other film to date...
Life at the Top cannot quite make it alone either, and in one brief flashback Director Ted Kotcheff literally splices in a little Room for improvement-shots from the earlier film to establish nostalgia, most notably a tantalizing glimpse of Oscar Winner Simone Signoret retreating into the mist. A smoothly professional cast clips off the randy dialogue with an inexhaustible zest for every sign of moral decay in the life of a British provincial town. Yet a film as good as Room at the Top creates no valid curiosity about the further adventures of Joe Lampton, whose future was contained...
Three characters rise above this muck: Oskar Werner, the ship's doctor; Lee Marvin, the baseball player; and Simone Signoret, the countess. Simone has lived a lot and squints all the time because she finds it too painful to look wide-eyed at the world. At the same time, she is as cuddlesome as can be. When Werner says, "Some-times you're so bitter; then you're soft and warm as a child," she groans, "I'm just a woman...