Word: murderously
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...prologue, Peter (Robert Atzorn), a man of respectable dress, manner and background, murders a prostitute. In the epilogue he is seen in his asylum cell, having completed his descent from inexplicable behavior to full-scale madness. Between these two sequences, Peter, his wife Katarina (Christine Buchegger) and various friends and relatives speculate on what must have motivated him to murder a stranger. They reach few firm conclusions...
...self-reliance by her smothering attentions. His wife's evidence-supported by his own dreams and memories-reveals that what seemed a marriage of near exemplary closeness was actually a case of almost childlike mutual dependency. A psychiatrist insists that men kill because it is only through murder that one can totally possess another. He warns that Peter must now be regarded as a potential suicide because, having murdered his wife's surrogate in an enactment of possessive passion, he must now kill himself in order finally to possess himself as well...
...murder trial obscures an infant country's solid progress
...Shootout at Dzivarasekwa Township last week was one of the violent encounters between rival remnants of guerrilla armies that all too regularly have continued to mar the peace of independent Zimbabwe. Coming when it did, it added to the tension already surrounding the murder trial of Cabinet Minister Edgar Tekere that begins in Salisbury this week. The manner in which the trial of the radical and powerful Minister of Manpower, Planning and Development is conducted, and its eventual outcome, will be widely regarded as a crucial test of Mugabe's control over his promising, but fractious, young country. Said...
...movies must succeed on more than a simply a male and female star alone, and here The First Deadly Sin fails. As a murder mystery there is simply no suspense or doubt--it travels the straight and narrow path from beginning, middle, to end, never throwing a curve by presenting an alternate suspect, never even temporarily blocking Delaney's inexorable march to solution of the puzzle. The ingredients of the film are delicious on their own merits--it's only when so combined that the recipe fails to pan out, as neither Sinatra's nor Dunaway's performance can provide...