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...seem to care one way or the other. Brigitte's father performs admirably in a comic-relief role; his best scenes occur when he goes to the dance hall looking for Vidal and (inevitably) is mistaken for a prospective pupil. And the inspector and his sub-gendarmes express all of a cop's care-worn but crime-piercing wisdom...
...Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script), in which a psychopath, brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe, and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows...
...hero is a cool, professional police inspector (Heinz Ruhmann) assigned to investigate the razor murder of an eight-year-old girl in the woods near a small Swiss town. When he breaks the news to her parents, he promises them, in a moment of rare emotional commitment, to bring the murderer to justice. Under pressure from the police, a peddler confesses to the crime, then hangs himself in his cell. But even though the case is officially closed, the inspector is not satisfied. Haunted by the memory of the butchered child and impelled, by his pledge to her parents...
...camera work; but some of the performances are better than that. Gert Frobe, who scored so impressively as a comic capitalist in Rosemary, creates with amazingly few gestures one of the most frightening psychopaths the screen has exhibited in recent years. And Actor Ruhmann, as the inspector, skillfully suggests that somewhere behind his wooden expression there are termites at work...
John C. Morris, Sanitary Inspector of the University Health Service, has asked that all students who have not returned their "epidemic study sheets" bring them to 223 Pierce Hall today. Freshmen have received the questionnaire as part of a survey to discover the cause of the "gastrointestinal disturbances prevalent last weekend...