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...which sets the stage for a sordid menage a trois. Schneider happens to be the unhappy--and unsatisfied--wife of a pudgy Rod Steiger awash in the throes of alcoholism. Middle-aged and impotent, this pathetic millionaire launches into a self-pitying tirade that evokes memories of Richard Burton at his worst. He has clearly bought his wife with his fortune, and the arrival of Schneider's new friend has given Steiger little cause for comfort. Schneider's looks make her suitable for the role of an unfaithful spouse; blonde, slender and very cool, she has infidelity stamped all over...
Having dragged the viewer through the police investigation and voice-over readings of the letters written to Schneider from her lover on the lam, Chabrol finally throws in some new twists. Steiger resurfaces out of nowhere, savoring the confrontation with his faithless wife as he relates how he foiled her best-laid plans to do him in. Watching the would-be widow get her just desserts restores a sense of justice to the film, but here the structure of the story shows its first signs of coming a cropper. Chabrol chooses to dwell on Steiger's triumph for several more...
William A. Steiger, Representative...
...expertise (Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew). Novelist Anthony Burgess has written an intelligent script, and the notable cast includes Anne Bancroft (Mary Magdalene), James Earl Jones (Balthasar), Stacy Keach (Barabbas), James Mason (Joseph of Arimathaea), Laurence Olivier (Nicodemus), Christopher Plummer (Herod Antipas), Ralph Richardson (Simeon), Rod Steiger (Pontius Pilate) and Peter Ustinov (Herod the Great...
...Montoya in New Mexico, Rancher Malcolm Wallop over Three-Term Veteran Gale McGee in Wyoming, Tax Lawyer Orrin Hatch over Frank Moss in Utah and former Navy Secretary John Chafee over Richard Lorber in Rhode Island. Among the Democrats who gained Republican seats: Tucson Attorney Dennis DeConcmi over Sam Steiger in Arizona, Congressman Spark Matsunaga over former Governor William Quinn in Hawaii, Congressman Paul Sarbanes over Incumbent Glenn Beall in Maryland and Omaha Mayor Edward Zorinsky over John McCollister in Nebraska. Some of the most intriguing races that produced new faces...