Truman Capote delivers an inveitve satire on Agatha Cristie in this soft boiled film. Bogie is only the foil. The heroine is Jennifer Jones. Capote has made her younger than Mrs. Marple to accomodate the love interest, but the important distinction is that most of what Jones invents is false and fanciful.
Jones spins tales of blackmail, mad doctors, Kurtzian horror, while ignorant of the muder commited by the gang of four very much off camera, the only real crime, besides western speculation at the expense of Africa. Yet it is she who reveals all to Scotland Yard at the end, destoying Bogie's hopes of easy riches in a neat reversal of noir formula as well.
Jones spins tales of blackmail, mad doctors, Kurtzian horror, while ignorant of the muder commited by the gang of four very much off camera, the only real crime, besides western speculation at the expense of Africa. Yet it is she who reveals all to Scotland Yard at the end, destoying Bogie's hopes of easy riches in a neat reversal of noir formula as well.
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