Suspects

Here are some SEXUAL DEVIANTS:

THE PEEPER! He can look over walls, using his special height!

THE POISON PEN! His penetrating eyes grown beady, this ink-stained wretch should seek decent employment as a critic, where his perversion can be put to socially responsible use.

THE RAPIST! If you see this man, do not approach him. He will approach you, if he’s interested.

More on this film shortly. I might even tell you what it is. But I’m reminded of a bit of nonsense. My friend, BAFTA-winning director Morag McKinnon, once told me that she didn’t like the Cowardly Lion in THE WIZARD OF OZ because “he looks like a rapist.” She will deny this if you ask her but, like everything else I tell you here, it’s TRUE.

I protested that Bert Lahr looks like a vaudevillian, not a sexual predator, and that if actual rapists went around dressed like that they’d be easier to identify, apprehend and convict. It would make for interesting police line-ups, anyway.