A happy Tuesday .. all goes well in the world today. Savant is an AOL customer, and I received my first DVDTalk newsletter in more than a month. So perhaps Savant's full newsletter list will arrive tomorrow!

It's cold-blooded murder day, I guess, with two out of three films devoted to heinous true crime. Our third film is sort of a crime perpetrated against a Rudyard Kipling story, but that's just Savant's opinion.

HVe's Murderous Maids is a diabolically exacting account of a pair of incestuous Lesbian servants (what a terrible set of labels) that committed France's most shocking crime. Sylvie Testud stars as the unforgettable Christine, who loved not too wisely but too Grand Guignol.

Columbia TriStar's In Cold Blood is stunning in B&W Panavision, and holds up well as the first modern semi-doc of a criminal incident that aimed for total realism. Scott Wilson and Robert Blake are execellent as the lethal pair of losers who killed for almost no reason at all.

Warner's Kim is a lacklustre and cutprice Rudyard Kipling tale defeated by changing attitudes, Cold War rhetoric and a general Fake Studio atmosphere. But there are lots of fans for this kid's adventure starring Dean Stockwell and an out-of-shape Errol Flynn.

Savant is trying to figure out what to review next - the Chris Lee Collection came in, and there's always Robin Hood. Plus some nice TV collections. Thanks, Glenn Erickson