Résolu à mourir

Everyone is a suspect, everyone had a motive, everyone had plenty of reasons to kill that particularly beastly man who only made a nuisance of himself and destroyed everyone's lives, and yet the mystery of his death becomes unfathomable, everyone groping around in the dark for any clue without finding anything except loose ends, and yet it is all perfectly clear. The tempo is slow to begin with but gradually builds up into a tremendous pile of mysteries collapsing into nothingness, as actually everyone is more or less proved innocent or at least convincingly so. And yet there is still the final dot on the final i in the end.

The acting is gorgeous, everyone is absolutely convincing, Michele Greene almost takes the prize with hard competition from Veronica Hamel, not even Marc Singer is overacting, while I still would like to propose George Dzundza, the insurance agent with some experience, as the ultimate glory of the show. The dialog is terrific all the way, the music is excellent without being intruding, in brief, this is something of a perfect thriller.