Closer to Agatha Christie than to Boileau-Narcejac who wrote the
original story and collaborated with Franju on the screenplay,
"Spotlight on a Murderer" is a decidedly minor affair, entertaining for
what it is but unlikely to set the cinematic world on fire. For
starters, it's got a fairly ridiculous plot, (even Christie would have
balked at this one); an old count, about to die, hides himself away in a
secret room in his chateau so that his relatives won't find his body
and will have to wait 5 years for their inheritance. Naturally the
corpses soon start piling up. Poiret or Miss Marple would have sorted it
out in no time.
Sunday, 13 January 2019
SPOTLIGHT ON A MURDERER *
Closer to Agatha Christie than to Boileau-Narcejac who wrote the
original story and collaborated with Franju on the screenplay,
"Spotlight on a Murderer" is a decidedly minor affair, entertaining for
what it is but unlikely to set the cinematic world on fire. For
starters, it's got a fairly ridiculous plot, (even Christie would have
balked at this one); an old count, about to die, hides himself away in a
secret room in his chateau so that his relatives won't find his body
and will have to wait 5 years for their inheritance. Naturally the
corpses soon start piling up. Poiret or Miss Marple would have sorted it
out in no time.
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