Word: simenon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Paris Express (Raymond Stress; George Schaefer), a British movie version of French Novelist Georges Simenon's The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By, is a Technicolored slice of European low life. It tells of a dull, respectable Dutch bookkeeper (Claude Rains) who catches his boss (Herbert Lom) running out with embezzled company money. In the scuffle, the employer is accidentally killed, and the bookkeeper, tempted by the financial windfall, runs off to Paris with the funds. There he takes up with a shady lady (Marta Toren) and has his one big fling before the police close...
...process of being transferred to the screen, the Simenon novel has lost not only its original title but also much of its point. The book, in examining human frailty under stress, was an incisive study of abnormal psychology. Claude Rains's stiff performance and some thoroughly normal moviemaking turn the picture into a routine chase yarn...
...Georges Simenon, author of thrillers: "I am sure of nothing...
...standout pieces: a story about an Italian P.W. in a U.S. hospital, by Giuseppe (The Brigand) Berto; a grisly novelette about a tubercular who marries to escape a domineering mama, by the 21-year-old French prodigy, Jean-Baptiste Rossi; a lively critical comparison of Mickey Spillane and Georges Simenon by Charles Rolo. If half the 110,000 copies of New World Writing are sold, the publishers will break even. Apparently, they are optimistic, for another issue is scheduled for fall. The idea is a good one; with a little more dare,, the second collection should be better...
Stage 52 (Sun. 6:30 p.m., ABC). Dramatization of French Novelist Georges Simenon's thriller, The Man Who Watched the Trains...