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Word: whodunists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
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...reconstruction of the Broadway comedy hit, is a fairly successful piece of graveyard humor. The corpse is provided by a wildly improbable murderer (Glenn Ford), a young Milquetoast who writes and directs TV whodunits, and who takes a potshot one night at a particularly unpleasant blackmailer. When the whodunist sees his first real-life cadaver, he almost faints. When he wraps the body in a plastic tarpaulin, the plastic tears. When he wraps it in a shower curtain and goes to bury it in the fresh foundation of a new gazebo (summerhouse), he discovers that the hole has been filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 1, 1960 | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

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