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...plays Miss Marple, a sort of dowager-detective who takes the 4:50 train from Paddington Station one afternoon and, happening to glance up from the whodunit she is wolfing, sees a woman being strangled in a passing train. Murder, she says to the police, but they only smile indulgently. Miss Marple gets her back up. "If you think I am going to sit back." she bellows, "and let everybody regard me as a dotty old maid, you are very much mistaken...
HOMICIDAL. The sleeper of 1961: a cheap ($250,000) chiller that turned out to be the most frightening film since Psycho-and what's more, nobody so far has guessed whodunit...
...went the newest chapter in the great Beria whodunit. Officially, the Kremlin announced six months after his arrest in 1953 that he had been secretly tried and executed for murder, espionage, treason, sabotage, and for good measure, perversion. Ever since, there have been many, often conflicting, accounts of Beria's real end. The latest account, leaked in Warsaw last week by Polish delegates back from the 22nd Party Congress in Moscow, was the most detailed version to date and, said they, was told by Khrushchev himself at a glittering champagne party...
Write Me a Murder (by Frederick Knott) gives away its murderer (James Donald) in Act I without defrosting any of its suspense as a superior spine-chiller. British Playwright Knott, of Dial "M" for Murder fame, has worked a twist on the conventional whodunit by fashioning a will...
Although Jacques Prevert's script unfolds the details of a murder, it is very unlike a conventional whodunit. The title of the film assigns guilt, the crime itself does not occur until very near the end, and Lange confesses to the first man he sees. Renoir spends the bulk of his time painting a genre scene of one small area in the Paris printing district. Life flows hectically between the publishing house of Batala and the streets. Renoir's photography seems to tear away the facades of buildings and to make the entire fauborg one stage. A fine example...