Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incarceration of freethinking, healthy people in madhouses is spiritual murder. It is a variant of the gas chamber, but it is an even more cruel variation, for the tortures of those being held are more vicious and prolonged...
...most venerable ideals, the Journal notes, is that in the interests of justice lawyers should represent even those they hate. From John Adams' defense of British soldiers accused of murder after the Boston Massacre to Harold Medina's defense of an accused traitor in World War II, some of the law's most significant chapters have been written by lawyers willing to take unpopular clients. To be sure, the Journal concedes, the profession has preferred wealthy and successful clients. But now that more and more lawyers are forsaking that predilection in order to defend the poor...
...hand, that the culprits could have been either ultra-right militarists or leftist revolutionaries seeking to prevent any liaison between Ongania and the Peronista-dominated trade unions. In any case, there appeared to be little doubt that the kidnapers, whoever they might be, had carried out their threat to murder Aramburu. Early one morning they placed his watch, keys and medallion in the night deposit box of a suburban Buenos Aires bank. But they kept his body, apparently burying it in secret...
...takes a lot of gumption these days to make a film that does not pander to youthful passion, express the abysmal views of a gloomy philosopher-director or explore assorted perversions in nude, sweaty detail. Particularly risky is the idea of filming an old-fashioned Hitchcockian murder mystery in all its creaking intricacy. That is precisely what French Director Rene Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise) has done in Rider on the Rain...
Deft Intrigue. Dobbs spends most of the movie trying to force Mellie to confess to murder; she spends most of her time trying to figure out just whom she killed. One unsure note is the convenient reason she resists Bronson's insistent interrogation: a childhood trauma has made her reluctant to confess anything. Still, Clement weaves his intrigues so deftly that such minor annoyances never seriously intrude...