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...cinema screen and I likes him." Of President Truman most Britons knew nothing. "But he must have something in him," some of them said, "or he wouldn't have satisfied Roosevelt...
...picture starts off with a bang it never betters when emery-voiced, satchel-eyed Fred Allen takes charge of the screen and gives the interminable screen credits the kicking-around they have so long been begging for: "This is Mr. Skirball's father-in-law," he explains of Director Richard Wallace, remarking also that Producer Skirball gets his name up there twice. When that is over you enter a charade-like world which is in many respects more rational than the one it ribs, and any amount more entertaining-a world in which children are hideously overeducated and essentially...
...leaves the feeling that no one else could quite fill the bill. His performance blends with the soft European beauty of Greta Gynt and the calm, leisurely pacing characteristic of English films to create an extremely satisfying impression of finished artistry. There is fidelity of characterization; unlike American screen women, who are invariably trim, several of the female leads are frankly heavy. There are glimpses of Goering and Himmler that ring very true, and desperate expressions on the faces of tortured Jews which tell the whole miserable story of persecution. "Mr. Emmanuel" goes into grim Nazi dungeons and glittering Nazi...
There is a nice lovestory hidden somewhere in the picture, and though there is practically no attempt really to explore or explain its possibilities, it somehow gets itself satisfactorily told. To a great extent Philip Barry, and Donald Ogden Stewart, who wrote the skilful screen play, are to be thanked for this. In spite of a painfully whimsical addiction to locutions like "by gum," they write several pieces of conversational love ping-pong and one jagged quarrel which make the average piece of would-be-sure-footed screen dialogue look like a sack-race on snowshoes...
...Royal Scandal (20th Century-Fox) was originally a play called The Czarina, a distinctly minor example of the Budapest school of perky lubricity. Some 20 years ago Director Ernst Lubitsch turned it into Forbidden Paradise, one of the shrewdest high-comedies in screen history. Producer Lubitsch's new version, which is directed by Otto (Laura) Preminger, has its points too, most of which are named Tallulah Bankhead. But all told, they just about manage to get the show...