Word: whodunitism
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Married. Mignon Eberhart, 47, whodunit hatcher (The White Cockatoo, The Patient in Room 18); and John P. H. Perry, 64, vice president and director of the Turner Construction Co.; both for the second time; in Chicago...
...little short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, depressed Thurber fans learned that the big Goldwyn musical starring Danny Kaye will be advertised on marquees as / Wake Up Dreaming. ¶Bella Donna (Merle Oberon and George Brent) might easily be confused (reasoned Gallup testers) with the drug which whodunit addicts know as "deadly nightshade." After considering and discarding Beautiful Lady, the film's manufacturers have settled on Temptation. ¶ Ernest Hemingway's The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber (starring Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett) was temporarily retitled Without Honor, is now definitely known as The Macomber...
Nocturne has some minor virtues for whodunit addicts who are determined to be frightened. The photography, full of wind, rain and long night shadows, is moodily chilling. There are also some fair sets: a nightclub where much of the plot is unwound looks as small, grubby and unglamorous as most real nightclubs. The movie's chief faults: too little headlong action and too much head scratching about a mystery that is not very mysterious...
...Dark Mirror. Suave whodunit with Olivia de Havilland and Lew Ayres (TIME...
...Dark Mirror (Universal-International) begins with a shadow-menaced shot of a corpse, then plunges headlong into a feverish chase after a knife-wielding paranoiac killer. Made with considerable style, it is a more diverting whodunit than most of the current crop of movies that mix homicide with psychiatry. Thanks to some suave legerdemain in its direction and playing, it even gives the impression of being a better movie than...