Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...killer, it turns out, is an impotent psychopath who murders women because he can't bring himself to kill his unfaithful wife. But his wife loves him, as does his mother, and the two women compete fiercely to protect him, making it extremely complicated for Maigret...
...rest of the cast is equally good. As the effeminate killer, Jean Desailly is babyish and hysterical; Annie Girardot and Lucienne Bogaert as his wife and mother respectively are just demonic enough to explain his mental condition. In his short role as the gigolo, Gerard Sety is amusing and properly nervous in his frank scene that is the comic high point of the film...
Heading the guest list in rank and position was Air Force General Nathan Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has accepted Martin's hospitality three times (on one occasion accompanied by his wife, son, daughter and infant grandson). Other guests: Air Force Lieut. General E. R. ("Pete") Quesada (ret.), administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency and onetime aviation adviser to President Eisenhower; General Sam Anderson, chief of the Air Force Air Matériel Command; General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces; Vice Admiral John T. Hayward, boss of Navy research...
...Ferraud "felt a terrible cracking" under him. Hastily grabbing his child from bed, he sprinted with his wife for high ground. Moments later, Malpasset Dam burst in shards like a flower pot, and a wall of water 25 ft. high swept down the valley at 50 miles an hour, washing trees, houses, vehicles and people towards the sea. When the flood smashed down on Fréjus, the old Roman part of the city was largely spared, but the thickly populated western sector went under...
...becomes increasingly cat-and-mousy, with a tune that introduces subtle dissonances, ominous themes, crashing chords. The Harrington family is slightly non-U and wholly nonunified. Father (Roland Culver) is a self-made furniture manufacturer, all the more defensively crass and philistine because of his contemptuously snobbish, culture-climbing wife (Jessica Tandy) and his contemptuous, muddled mamma's lap dog of a son (Brian Bedford...