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Take My Life (Rank; Eagle-Lion). An opera singer's husband is accused of strangling a former mistress; his wife (sumptuous Greta Gynt) finds out whodunit. This English thriller in the Hitchcock tradition is no world-shaker, but it is done with intelligence and a flair for fright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Gregory Peck and Whodunit Writer Leslie (The Saint) Charteris, with their wives, were safe & sound in Miami after weathering a mild (46 m.p.h.) blow. Battling through rough water in their cruiser Tonga they had to anchor offshore and radio the Coast Guard to come and get them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Comings & Goings | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...whodunit sequence in which Sidney Greenstreet plays Brahms's Lullaby while he tells Peter Lorre how to rub out Humphrey Bogart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cut It Out | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Realistic backgrounds and some almost surrealistic horror highlight the photography which is the cardinal virtue of this Claudette Colbert whodunit. It is this superior camera work which gives that cerie mise en scene all important to a psychological mystery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sleep My Love | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

Jenny Lamour (French). Winner of the Grand Award at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. A whodunit about vaudeville people. Excellent performances by Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier and the notably attractive Suzy Delair, who suggests a Mae West who really means it. First-rate directing by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The best movie treatment of show business since E. A. Dupont's monumental Variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Foreign Films | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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