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(114) The Casket
In "The Casket," an irresistible force meets an
immovable object. Saunders (the irresistible force), trying to get a wounded Kirby to a
hospital, crosses an elderly mother (the immovable object) determined to give her son
proper burial. She has the truck that Saunders and Caje need to transport Kirby. But the
widow has no love for Americans. Saunders confiscates the trunk, with the casket, and
forces her and her surviving son to come with him. 
Though not a sterling episode,
"The Casket" provides an interesting diversion. Nina Foch, as the old French
woman driven to extremes by grief, is a joy to watch, especially when she gets the upper
hand with Saunders. The script by Ed Waters and Paul David Moesinger has her going
over-the-top a little too often, but Foch and director McEveety do their best to reign in
the cliches. But where does an old woman in a war-torn France get a truck, gasoline, and a
semi-automatic pistol? Vehicles were routinely confiscated and gas was rationed.
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