French Without Tears
HEARD from 3YA recently my first of the Inspector French series of episodes (BBC). The method, combining narrative (by the Inspector) with reconstructions of incidents (blackmailer’s dying agonies very realistic) seemed to me practically ideal for the broadcasting of thrillers. None of the everlasting "So this is the railway station (bump; sizzle; hoot), Who’s that over there? (footsteps). Hello, Smith" with which less skilful producers convey us from incident to incident. The essentials are clearly given without undue fuss, and one is thankful, But French himself? I remember him as a rather engaging figure in print, plodding and perspiring with pure conscientiousness; {but Milton Rosmer makes him languid -almost what someone called la-di-perishing-da and comfortably superior to those poor poops of murderers, / :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 288, 29 December 1944, Page 6
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125French Without Tears New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 288, 29 December 1944, Page 6
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