Word: whodunitism
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Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A medical whodunit in which New York public-health sleuths track an innocent dress buyer who carried in smallpox virus from Rio de Janeiro...
...carpet slippers, on any one of dozens of planes, Dulles, world citizen, would pull out a whodunit from his worn briefcase ("The detective must put his mind to work-my mind is relaxed as I read of his deductions"), or, as he often did, make plans in mid-Atlantic to stop off for a swim at Bermuda...
James Mason and Margaret Leighton as a pair of lawyers in The Second Man, a superior Britannic whodunit...
Rashomon, a stage version (by Fay and Michael Kanin) of the widely admired Japanese movie, is a whodunit about the death of a nobleman in a medieval forest. There are four different versions of the crime, but the solution is left to the audience. Rashomon (opening on Broadway Jan. 27) beguiled Philadelphia with its fine acting by Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Noel Willman, Akim Tamiroff, Oscar Homolka. The fable may be inscrutable, but, said Variety, "for some playgoers it is exciting entertainment...
Actually, the show's special appeal is neither sex nor standard whodunit suspense. The audience is rarely kept guessing about who scragged the rich widow or shot the human fly. All Peter Gunn's have to do is wince while their man absorbs his beatings. Usually they know did what to whom, and they can be that Pete will survive with his features unscrambled. While the mayhem builds up though, the show offers a fine sound track. Jazzman Henry Mancini, who boasts some 50 movie credits, composes scores for each show, leads leman band through a whining, insinuating...