Word: whodunitism
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...Then There Were None (20th Century-Fox), a whodunit that concentrates on atmosphere, is more sultry than chilling. Its ten shady-looking characters are herded off to a soggy, cheerless house-party on a windswept little island. The reason for this melancholy get-together is soon apparent: each of the guests has gone unpunished for one or more crimes, and the anonymous host has decided to impose rough-&-ready justice on his own. What happens from then on is menacingly suggested by the title...
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Confusion is the keynote of a plot that includes larceny, blackmail, multiple murder, and the whodunit show's inevitable quota of hardboiled--romance. Director Eduard Dmytryk has handled this turbulent story, with its emphasis on strangulation, cudgeling and other more ingenious forms of violence, with good taste extraordinary for Hollywood...
Laura (20th Century-Fox), thanks to some slick direction by Otto Preminger and a cast out of the top drawer, is a highly polished and debonair whodunit with only one inelegant smudge on its gleaming surface. In swank settings that cry for a pinch of poison or at least a dainty derringer, the victim is obliged for purposes of plot to have her pretty face blown off by a double-barreled shotgun fired at close range...
...Whodunit becomes the problem of Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews), a police lieutenant with Racquet Club manners, who for the first time in Hollywood history arrives on the scene minus a stooging sergeant. Bristling with brains and breeding, Mark proceeds to track the murderer and fall for Laura. He catches both just in time to prevent another lovely face from being reduced to hamburger...