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...confession insisted. Object of the prosecution was to show that the other defendants were his accomplices. Object of the defense was to show that Nazi Storm Troopers instigated and abetted Marinus van der Lubbe, so that Chancellor Hitler could win the March election on the issue of a Communist plot to seize the State...
What little action and plot there is in "Biography" is concentrated on Marion Froude. When we first see her, she is waiting for something to happen; it does. She is asked by her first love, Leander, to paint his portrait; a young editor asks her to write her biography for a sensational weekly, for she is a famous personality whose charm exceeds her ability as an artist,--the public has heard that she is promiscuous. Leander, "Bunny" to Marion, hears that Marion has agreed to write the story of her life, all of it. I say no more of plot...
...nger. "Yes-and no-I have my own views." "Why do you laugh?" "At the trial in general." The Nazi object in the entire performance was not only to blame the five Communist defendants for the fire, but to show the existence of a great international Communist plot from which the coming of Adolf Hitler is supposed to have saved the world. The Nazi prosecution did attempt to make some rejoinder to the world's charges that Nazis themselves set fire to the building, by producing alibis for two Nazis-Police Chief Edmund Heines of Breslau and Lieutenant Schultze...
...Some of you will drift, peacefully drift, but ships that drift land on the beach wrecked. Some 50 per cent of you will mean well but do feebly. You will follow the rules, but you will not put your all into the task. But it takes courage to plot your course and see it through to the end. The hundred per centers among you will have that courage...
...office. Detectives from the Manhattan Police Department's Bureau of Missing Persons-whose Captain John H. Ayers wrote Missing Men on which the picture is based-were on hand to identify Judge Crater. He failed to appear. Unlike Captain Ayers' book, the picture has a plot-about a brash detective named Butch Saunders (Pat O'Brien) who falls in love with a girl (Bette Davis) who comes in to ask about a missing husband. Presently Butch Saunders learns the Chicago Police Department wants the girl for murder; then that the man she is looking...