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If one doesn't check the credits before the film began, one might conclude that this film was made by Brian DePal- ma, the director who believes that you can build a career remaking Alfred Hitchcock's movies. But it'6 not. "Still of the Night" is script­ ed and directed by Robert Benton -- his first film since the successful "Kramer vs. Kramer." All the elements of a Hitch­ cock movie are included in "Still of the Night." The female lead is a blonde who creates suspicion that she may be psychotic. There's even a duplication of the auction sequence from "North by Northwest." What Hitchcock would call the "McGuffin" -- the central fact around which the plot revolves -- is whether or not Meryl Streep is a murderer. She comes into the office of her. lover's psychiatrist (Roy Scheider) to say that her lover has been found with his throat rudely ventilated from ear to ear. Is she capable of murder? What is it about her past she's trying to hide? Will she fall in love with the psychiatrist? The answers are all neatly included in this basic, compact thriller that shows you can still give an audience a few chills and thrills without showing them guts and gore. Benton is a solid scriptwriter, and this is a no-frills script that could be a blueprint for a thriller. It's almost as if you had given the project to an engineer to film instead of a director. It's func­ tional, if not elegant. Miss Streep brings class to anything she's in, but here she almost overacts her part. Nei­ ther the film nor her character is that complex. „ and Miss Streep is trying to deep-sea fish in a shallow stream. After the tense social realism ol "Kramer vs. Kramer," Ben­ ton said he wanted to make a film that was purely a filmic exercise, a chiller that was sim­ ply a diversion. In that he has succeeded well. "Still of the Night" has no socially redeem­ ing value, but it's entertaining Hitchcock might have approved. ©lM2CompUog