TITLE: MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY
DIRECTOR: WOODY ALLEN
WRITERS: WOODY ALLEN AND MARSHALL BRICKMAN
THE BOTTOM LINE: Amiable and unambitious, a new comedy at once amuses and dissatisfies.
Women are the suspicious sex: so a certain amount of husbandly experience -- as well as a long-established convention of popular culture -- teaches us. For decades Blondie has been routing Dagwood out of bed to investigate strange noises downstairs. And Nora Charles always sniffed out foul play ahead of blithe Nick, despite the fact that he was the professional detective.
A feminist might argue that this proves the male is inherently less intuitive...
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