Word: whodunitism
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...Blue Gardenia (Warner) cooks up a better-than-average whodunit out of some rather commonplace movie ingredients: a dead artist (Raymond Burr), a beautiful murder suspect (Anne Baxter), and a dynamic newspaper columnist (Richard Conte) who solves the crime...
Martin, who knows that one way to win friends is to praise them, spends millions advertising other people's products. For the second year in a row, he is devoting the commercials on his topflight TV whodunit, Suspense, to show off the cars put out by Auto-Lite's customers. In April, after he has shown ten cars on TV, Martin will spend about half a million dollars on his own "Parade of Stars" auto show at Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria. Says Royce Martin: "When we help the customer, we help ourselves...
...Confess (Warner) is an Alfred Hitchcock whodunit with an intriguing premise: a Canadian priest (Montgomery Clift) is accused of murder, but cannot reveal the identity of the real killer because his lips are sealed by the confessional. The picture develops its theme in straightforward fashion with few surprises and plot twists. Since the audience knows from the beginning who the killer is, his undoing comes about in a rather lame climax...
...train, thus could not have stolen the car in North Carolina. At that evi dence, Rogers' sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Then a fellow convict told Rogers of Argosy magazine's "Court of Last Resort," an investigative agency started by Argosy Publisher Henry Stee-ger and Whodunit Writer Erie Stanley (Perry Mason) Gardner (TIME, May 9, 1949). Rogers wrote to Argosy and Ar gosy went to work on the case...
...Cousin Rachel (20th Century-Fox) is a 19th century whodunit that poses a perplexing riddle: Is the fetching, half-English, half-Italian widow Rachel (Olivia de Havilland) a murderess who killed her former husband? And is she now slowly doing away with her lover (Richard Burton) by slipping laburnum seeds into his tea? Or is Rachel only misunderstood-a gracious, generous "woman of impulse ... of strong feeling" whose husband died of a hereditary brain tumor? This mystery is slickly served up with all the full flavorings of romance, tragedy, revenge, intrigue and suspense. Bells clang in the distance, the surf...