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Today's movie was not a Best Film but a first cousin; the Coen Brothers'

Blood Simple (1984)

It is their first picture and Frances McDormand's debut as well. She is one of the Coen's Missus.

The real star is the venerable M. Emmet Walsh as a private detective who starts a spiral of betrayal and intrigue which seems impossible to stop; a contorted, scary, grisly mind bender. Relentless.

His client is Dan Hedaya. Here they are plotting.

It is just great.

It will get my 5 out of Netflix5.

Here is Ebert's review of the DVD; fifteen years later.

This film has a strong whiff of Diabolique, the French pants-wetter, which we saw earlier in the 'D's.