Word: highsmith
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month, at the height of Democrat Gerstein's campaign for reelection, the Herald finally found what it billed as evidence against him. His Re publican opponent, Shelby Highsmith, accused him of taking a $1,500 bribe eight years ago to drop bad-check charges against Howard C. Edwards, a former minister of the Christian Church, after Edwards had made the bad check good. As proof, Highsmith offered sworn statements from Edwards and an alleged contact man. Next day the Herald arranged to fly Edwards and his colleague to Chicago for lie-detector tests. Though Edwards' test...
...check case your case will be dis missed on the first go-round. You wouldn't bribe anyone. It wouldn't be necessary." Moreover, the alleged ev idence against Gerstein also implicated three judges - all former members of Gerstein's staff. But at first neither Highsmith nor the Herald publicized the additional charges. Gerstein's ex planation was that they were so preposterous that the whole case - including the accusation against him - would have collapsed. The Herald did eventually publish them, explaining that it could not do so earlier for fear of libel suits...
...undone-by-it. Here, nearly every member of a fine, worried cast is slowly undone when Veteran Director Claude Autant-Lara (Devil in the Flesh) begins to philosophize on film about the complex, overlapping nature of guilt. Putting the squeeze on a crafty plot from a novel by Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train), Autant-Lara seemingly distills a number of small, disturbing revelations and holds each one up to the light, testing for color, clarity and body. The results are heady vin de table, if not quite vintage stuff...
...scheme, first elaborated in a novel (The Talented Mr. Ripley] by Patricia Highsmith, is now dramatized by Director Rene (Forbidden Games) Clement in a film noir that is skillful as well as repulsive. One pleasant summer's day, while drifting lazily over the Bay of Naples, Tom suddenly rams a fish knife into Philip's heart, wraps his body in a tarpaulin, weights it with an anchor, drops it overboard. Then he sails back to port, puts his own picture in Philip's passport, schools himself to forge the victim's signature, coolly cashes his checks...