Word: spoilers
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...movie has a pretty twist in store. [SPOILER] Nice-guy Marty is indeed the killer - the janitor had let him out of his room, he went to Mavis? place hoping for an anniversary reunion and, when she rudely rejected his affections, he strangled her with his scarf (overtones of Franchot Tone!) - but he doesn?t remember because his alcoholic stupor blotted out the deed. Now that all is clear, he wants to save the husband of the woman he loves. A killer racing against time to turn himself in: that?s a poignant twist...
...Vince finds a house, and a mirrored room, that resembles his dreamscape; and Cliff learns that a murder was recently committed there. This being a thriller, they have to stay there to discover that the murderer was [SPOILER] a cuckolded husband who hypnotized Vince to kill the man she was fooling around with. Vince still isn?t sure if he did it: ?I?ve got an innocent man?s conscience in a killer?s body...
...down on any report,? the book?s detective says. ?It seems to slip away each time you think you?ve got it pinned down.? In the baronial study, the girl, her lover (John Lund), the cop (William Demarest) and a few businessmen all wait for the witching hour. Then [SPOILER] a mysterious figure moves the minute hand on the grandfather clock ahead, and when that clock chimes 11 the girl and her protectors (who never look at their own watches) think all peril is over. That?s when the murderer strikes. Jeez...
...ecstatic slow motion - really. And it dispenses with the novel?s resolution. Woolrich?s killer was the best friend of two of the men; in the film (where he?s played by Jean-Claude Brialy) his function is merely to cast a net of suspicion on the bride. [SPOILER] In the film, the killer is one of the group of five (brutish Daniel Boulanger), who is put in jail before Julie can kill him. Julie materializes at the artist?s funeral, is arrested and jailed. In prison, she is assigned kitchen duty, and commits her ultimate murder just...
...love of a decent man, and withdraws thousands from a new bank account to pay off a slime-ball who was once her lover. The difference is that Julia, in ?Waltz,? is a killer bitch with a larcenous agenda and an ex-beau even creepier than Helen?s Steve. [SPOILER] This guy, Billy, has killed the real Julie, who was a mail-order bride on her way to rich, nice-guy Louis. His pretty accomplice takes Julia?s place, marries Louis, steals his money and runs away with Billy. When Louis catches up with her and they become a couple...