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The director and two stars of LAURA (1944) were reteamed for this solid policier: Dana Andrews is the son of a criminal who becomes a cop to cut all ties with the past but cannot keep his inherited violent ways in check while interrogating suspects and, one night, he goes too far; Gene Tierney is the estranged wife of his victim, a decorated war hero who has become involved with the town's leading racketeer and Andrews' No. 1 nemesis, Gary Merrill (who had himself been the protégé of Andrews Snr.)!
After one case sees Dixon in search of suspects and answers, he gets far more involved than he wanted.
So already, the film produces two possible suspects in the later murder of Lisa, who awaiting someone in Tokyo.
These guys are anything but the Usual Suspects!
It I hesitate to make comparisons, because these filmmakers have really digested their influences (Cassavetes, Malick, Loach, Altman...the usual suspects) and found their own unique style, but if you like modern directors in this tradition (Lynne Ramsay, David Gordon Greene), you're in for a real treat.
The best murder mysteries, be they on film or in print, are slight affairs that get to the point, spell out their clues, line up their suspects and, hopefully, zap us with a few surprises; being complicated without being unduly confusing.
We're not talking The Usual Suspects here, but it's far above many other kung fu movies of the time.
Why? Could your censors stomach a film where policemen anally rape male and female suspects to get them to talk (and the victims enjoy it) or see an old lady have her eye torn out of her skull?
Back in the 1930's William Powell played in the Philo Vance Series and in this picture, the famous veteran actress Mary Astor, (Hilda Lake) becomes one of the suspects in a murder/suicide case where a man named, Archer Coe, (Robert Barrot) is found dead and Archer was in a room that was bolted from the inside.
Being a soft-core film, that entails her going undercover at a strip club and having sex with possible suspects.
There are plenty of suspects, including a tenacious investigator (George Hilton) from the insurance agency and the widow's lover.
Lionel Atwill plays a delightfully zany museum curator, the usual comic relief is quite funny here, and there are lots of suspects on whom to cast an eye.
Mark Dixon, a cop with a bad temper who has gotten into trouble in the past for beating suspects.
Because, one suspects, this is not about music.
Columbo enters the case, suspects her at once, and solves the mystery by simply using his supernatural mystical intuitive powers.
The problem with books like those of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers or S.S. Van Dine (on whose work this film is based), is that they are low on action or variety - whereas Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe traverse the mean streets of LA, working class tenements, bars, offices, wealthy mansions, and meet all sorts of exciting dangers and violence, Golden Age fiction is generally fixed in location, the scene of the murder, usually a lavish country house, and the action is limited to investigating clues and interviewing suspects.
Take a so-so concept, stuff it into a script and load it down with every single freakin' special effect that the Wizards of Hollyweird can conjure up, then round up the usual suspects: hot up-and-comers, has-beens, wanna-be's and never-wuzzes, and stick 'em all in ensemble roles of various sizes in front of the unforgiving eye of the cameras.
The plot keeps your brain in motion - one of those movies (like Usual Suspects) where you want to see it a second time to figure it all out.
He has a track record of treating suspects and known criminals with gross brutality and this has brought him into conflict with his superior officers who have censured him for the amount of violence he has regularly used.
Thomas suspects the women have been brainwashed into believing they're actually vampires when it fact they're not, and sets out to get to the bottom of things.
night diet,( she suspects her husband is gay since he'd rather do almost anything instead of sex with her (not a bright bulb), she wants a child, she loves phallic paintings, she hates Bach, she's dangerous with a microwave.
Pretty soon Marcos becomes extremely paranoid and begins to kill every last person who suspects him of being a homicidal maniac (Marcos even whacks his own brother with a wrench).
Judith's parents have put light blue vinyl siding on her house... but Judith suspects there are serious dangers from vinyl to humans... during its manufacture, if it burns, when its disposed of.
There are not enough suspects on show either, I always felt that it was going to be one of only two potential killers and I was proved right.
In this play, two suspects are being put through a degrading interrogation.
A lengthy line-up of suspects for the person responsible for her death has the police baffled," according to the DVD sleeve's synopsis.
Immediately, Jeff suspects there is something wrong going on, but the other two guys seem fine with the fact that the woman is walking around comatose.
The "plot" barely makes sense, and the roster of suspects makes it obvious right off the bat who the "mystery psycho" will turn out to be.
He seeks guidance from his teacher, played by Steven Weber, whom he suspects is gay.
Hayden sleep-walks through his role of a tough-talking, world-weary police captain who suspects ex-con Nelson is involved in a series of holdups.
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