Susan Denker requests: " For a new course for next year tentatively entitled Women Who Kill, I am seeking recommendations of films that are directly about women who murder one or more people during the course of the film. If you'd kindly tell me who gets murdered (e.g. father, mother, sister, roommate, rapist, random strangers..) along with the recommended titles, it would be even more helpful, since the course is organized by topic." Here's some that come to mind: Several by Hitchcock (of course)-- BLACKMAIL (attempted "date" rapist) SABOTAGE (husband) THE PARADINE CASE (husband--but unresolved until late in the film) I believe the "real" thief also kills in TO CATCH A THIEF Liv Ullman helps Paul Newman do in a spy in TORN CURTAIN MODESTY BLAISE--spies Grace Jones in one of the Roger Moore James Bond films Lotte Lenya as Isla Klebb (sp?) in FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Noir-ish films THE MALTESE FALCON (Floyd Thursby and Miles Archer) MURDER, MY SWEET (remade as FAREWELL, MY LOVELY) DOUBLE INDEMNITY and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (both versions)--husband SUNSET BOULEVARD (narrator!) BODY HEAT (by proxy) BASIC INSTINCT Doesn't Scarlet shoot a soldier in GONE WITH THE WIND? THE LADY FROM SHANGAI--husband in hall of mirrors The sweet little old ladies in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE Film versions of "classic" drama or lit-- MEDEA Several versions of CARMEN TOSCA Lady Macbeth the nurse in CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA Foreign films-- Both (?) versions of DIABOLIQUE THE BRIDE WORE BLACK (a bunch of people) Chabrol's THE CHAMPAGNE MURDERS and VIOLLETTE NOZIERE a German soldier is shot by an Italian woman in PAISAN Oshima's EMPIRE OF PASSION--husband Meryl Streep is accused of murder in A CRY IN THE DARK In at least one of the FRIDAY THE 13TH films, Jason's mother does at least some of the killing. Oh, also see death of a rapist in Oshima's VIOLENCE AT NOON Grace Kelly shoots a man in the back (!) in HIGH NOON I know there are many more! Hope this helps. Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]