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9-25-24 Wed // 9:54 PM // Doin' a. Private Jean Arthur end O' Summer retro. I just finished the superb "Easy Living," now, were here. ( To begin, I had no ideal there was a housing shortage in Washington D.C. during W.W. 2. . i love how this film educated me on that little piece of lost History.) Forgotten character actor Charles Coburn is at the top of his game here as"Mr. Dingle." It's difficult to imange a beautiful young girl ( altough Jean Arthur was 42 at the X of filming. I believe she was also noted for playing Peter Pan on stage & lived into her 90's.) renting out apt. space to a stranger in 2024, but I remember watching this film in the 1990's & not finding anything odd about the situation. Time's do change./// About Charles Coburn,,, I am Blk, & from my understanding Mr. Coburn ( in real-life) wouldn't have been too keen about that. ( Walter Brennan the same.) I can appreciate a man's skill, & labor & seperate it from their personality. Nuff' sed about dat' !! // The late, Great George Stevens at his height in the 1940's-50's, was a sequence past-master. The scenes early in the film in lesser hands would come off inconsequential, & way over-long, with Ted Telzlaffs camera work & Otto Meyers editing.not a moment is wasted. You'll be beside yourself or at the very least highly amusd. These are Master's completely incorporating film & acting technique to the Nth. Degree. /// Joel Mccrea, & Jean Arthur were firmly implanted within the High Glamour era of Classic Hollywood, but I'd fall short of calling them "Glamor-star's," they were both more down to Earth in approach, White-Collar Movie Star type's circa 1930's- 1940's. As such McCrea rarely applied the sex appeal in most of his film's but he sure gives Cary Grant a run for his money here./// ( My opinion) there's a symphonic lushness ( understated) between "Joe" ( McCrea,) & "Connie's" ( Arthur) impromptu romance that Stevens, Telzlaff & Meyers play up to the hilt !!!! Stylish, & sophisticated without being over-bearing. // i'd say the last 20 min's makes this film a little of a hard sell for 2day's audience's. "Dingle," becomes a ( White) "Magic Negro," basically, doing things that the previous hr. & a 1/2 made not the slightest indication toward. I think this all has more to do with WW2 mysticism, & "enchantment," ( as so many soilder's never came home, & there was a Nation of grieving young widow's,,, a theory,, I'm working it out,,,

8-5-24// Mon // OOOHHHHHHHH, What would U do if U were a sweet, pretty, innocent, All-American gurl in small town California in 1943, & U had a ( unknowingly) symbiotic relationship,,,,,,,,,WITH A SERIAL-KILLER ???!!!! A lovely, timeless waltz suddenly keeps floating through the chamber's of your psyche accountably,,,,, the same waltz, the killer used to help subdue his victim's seconds before wringing their neck's like chicken's ( "Rope." 1948.),,,,,,well, that's the conundrum Alfred Hitchcock set's before the audience in his thrilling 1943 Masterpiece," Shadow of a Doubt." "Uncle Charlie," (Joseph Cotton) is sort of an inverted variation on the suave, magisterial, charming, cunning Hitchcock Super-Villian of the 1940's. He's, White-collar, not out to overthrow Governments, awkward sense of sardonic dry humor, ( not glib, or witty,,, off-putting.) Handsome, but not dapper, kinda a small town, small circle aristocrat. Out of John O' Hara fiction type. // "Uncle Charlie" is based on "The Gorilla Man," crime spree of the 1920's. "Gorill," made ""Uncle Charlie," "Norman Bates" & even Jeffery Dahmer look like children in a playground. This dude-O, was the living definition OF A PSYCHOPATH !!!! If you're in the mood for being completely disgusted, & throwing up your lunch research this lunatic. // Pat Coolinge I feel is the unwritten glue to this picture. One of Hitchcocks rare presentation's of a wholesale ( naive) sweet, old fashioned American woman. Coolinge craftly steers her scenes with the family, between Cotton, Teresa Wright ( Who was on a roll that would make Katherine Hepburn, & Meryl Streep blush in 1943.) Henry Travers, & Hume Cronin without stepping on any of these actor's formidable feet, over staying her role, or dragging the script down, while quietly spurring the script forward. No lean feat. ( Ya know, sorta like a,,,,,,,mom,,,,)

8-3-24 Sabb// "Lifeboat," ( in my opinion) is one of the Greatest WW2 Movie's made during the War-era. ( It's definitely one of my personal All-X Favorite Hitch's.) Here we have a Hitchcock"experimental" ( his first I think) pretty early in his Hollywood career. The film revolves around well,,,,,A lifeboat, filled with the crew & passengers of a torpedoed civilian ship. The Actor's work exceptionally in this small barge surrounded by Studio-water, stand-out's being WW2 era-favorite "Mug" actor William Bendix, John Hodiax ( As a cockier, wider- shoulder's, 6-pack, handsome "mug".) The legendary Canada Lee ( Who probably brought dignified role's to Blk Male Actor's in American Movie's nearly10 year's before the apperance's of Sidney Poiter & Harry Belfonte ( Lee, portrayed older than those 2 gentlemen, & not as cinematically handsome or intense. As here, Lee is portrayed more as a moralistic, sturdy force in the face of adversity.)Good guy actor Walter Selzak playing one of Hitchcock's most treacherous villian's ( & you're stuck on a life-boat in the middle of the Ocean with this one for weeks !!!!) & of course, Tallulah Bankhead who at 40 here still sucks the air out of the room, & calls ALL ATTENTION TO HERSELF ( Duhling.) & makes WW2 all about her !!!! She's delightful, & if I had to be stuck in a lifeboat Banky is definitely one of the group I would chose. ( Along with someone who could get me out of that Ocean in one piece !!!!) /// Hitchcock at his best could take extremely high-brow notion's, & deposit them securely within a specific genre. "Willy," ( Walter Slezak" ) is a slyly deceptive Character. He elicit's the crew's sympathy's, dividing the non-aggressive ( obviously) pacifist/ isolationist of pre WW2 America "Charles Rittenhouse" ( Henry Hull) /& "Stanley Sparks" ( Hume Cronyn) against the ( increasingly ) Pro-War formerly disinterested, non-commitial bulk of the rest of the cast, & the seething, "Kill all Nazi's" ferver of "John Kovac"/ ( John Hodiak.) Hitch had the knack to take these existential conundrums & pre-package them into pot-boiler's of the highest order. My mom was a. Blk 6th. Grade graduate of the Jim crow South in the 1940's, & this was one of her All-X Favorite Movie's. Godard, Bergmann, Rossellini & Co. Could take similar material & create the largest sleeping Pill in known History. /// DDDAAAMMMMM, I LLLOOOOVVVEEE THIS MOVIE !!!! I won't give away whats left of the film for first X viewer's sake, but, DDDDAAAMMMMM !!! PACKS A PUNCH !!!! Also, sitting here viewing this Classic in 2024, at 63, I swear I feel like I'm back 15-16 year's old in 1976, back in New Haven Ct. Viewing Sunday Classic Movie's on WPIX In New York back when I first began to take real ( reel)interest in Movie's. Melts the year's for me.

7-27-24// Sabb// Hitchcock would give us a "Macguffin" in his adventures ( an object, thing, place, et that set the motivational factor, the premise of the story-line.) In "The Bird's" the leading player's ( Rod Taylor, & Tippi Hedren) are. the de-facto human-being Macguff's. The film tally's on disguised as a 1963, woman's picture, before the ( Bird) Shitte hit's the fan, & Hitchcock reveals the movies real intent. A Hitchcock experimental shoe-horned as a drive-in movie horror flick. // Mz. Hedren looks like what I term "A 1960's, "Breck" Shampoo girl ( A popular TV advertisement, & campaign which ran in the 1960's.) upon a little research it seems that Hitch pulled her from a diet-soda commercial. It's kinda embarrassing watching Jessica Tandy, & the old Studio-system character-Actor's out Act her at every turn. She is gentle on the eye's though, doesn't get in the way of the script or action. Handles herself well ( esp. for a novice under Hitchcock (,,,EEEERRRRR,,,,,) & a highly formidable cast, & crew.) /// Do yerself a favor, ( esp. If your entertaining going into the film/ Directing/ editing business.) pull out. a pen, & pad & TAKE NOTE OF THE FRIGGIN BLOCKING IN THIS FILM !!!! HOLY COW !!! WERE TALKING NEARLY SPIRITUAL !!!! ,,,well,,,, Masterful !!!! // I also noticed how the restaurant scene here ( absent the bird's) seems to pop up in nearly every Steven King Movie. I've never read anything by King, but as far as filmed production's of his work's go, scenes similar to this one pop-up an inordinate amount of time.//// "The Birds," ends on a mysterious note. It's obvious this. Is deliberate, still it leaves one pondering ( even after 60 + year's) wott da' he## did I just watch ???!!!! It's technically brilliant, well acted, exceptionally Directed, but I always leave "The Bird's" feeling gyped a little. I DEMAND ANSWER'S !!!! //// (ROPE) 1948// "Rope" enter's on a sinister, evil, arrangement. Two ( stylish, handsome, ##mosexual.) men, Senselessly, murder a college, not out of spite, anger, revenge,,,,,,just,,,,,,because,,,,,,,,,these 2 ruthless, heathens, are lower than Film-gangster's ( except for "Tommy" in "Goodfella's" 40+ year's later.)These degenerate's adopt their Nietzschian tomfoolery, & snuff the life of a man with a loving family, his history, loved one's, God's ambition for the man,,,,as a lark,,,,,???,,,, the scene is disturbingly saturated in paganistic horror, & Modernist shame. Two of Hitchcock's most detestable villian's. ( John Dall & Farley Granger.) /// Dall, main-lines into the droll, suave 1940's upper-class, wine-master ( steroe-typical ???) Villian. He & Joan Chandler are hilarious. The situation remains though, exacerbated by brandon Shaws ( Dall) megalomania, & sadism ( he puts David Kentleys ( the murder victim) body in a table used for hor' dourves. He invites the murdered David's, parent's & finance ( Chandler) over for a soiree over the innocent dead man ( he helped murder) body.) /// At this point Jimmy Stewart ( his 1st. Hitchcock.) enters, & he basically Jimmy Stewart's all over the place. Was Stewart too big a star for this Hitchcock experimental,,,???? U decide. ( personally, I think Hitch's experimental's normally worked best with lesser known actor's.) The film settles in2 a superior 1940's Murder/ Mystery after that. Slog's at X's, but remains a fascinating, lesser traveled Hitchcock Classic.

7-19-24/ Friday/ Sabbath/ AAAACCCTTT-U-A-LEEEE, I planned on saving this Film & "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" for the inevitable down-fall of Joesph Biden & Joe-Bamaism, but it looks like God blessed us with that excellent event 3 month's early ( LOVE U GOD !!!!) So, I'm going to bum-rush these masterpieces this weekend to ( prayerfully) align with the Potato-resignation agenda of C-word Central.// Sun 7-21// Well, it looks like The Potato-in-Cheif suddenly has the bug to avoid ( not confirmed) resignation. Stretch it out. Whatever. However, ( for me) Robin Hood '38, stands far above the challenger's to the crown just in the banquet Hall scene, alone. Errol Flynn becomes a Super-Star, & a house-hold name here !!! This for me ultimately construct's probably the Greatest, entrance scene in film-History. Flynn non-chalantly exhibt's complete & total Star-power !!!( No, lean fact with Basil Rathbone, Claude Raines, & Olivia De Havilland sitting there across the table mere feet away from you to exchange line's with. There's also, noted 1930's Studio-era scene-stealer's to contend with ( Eugene Pallette, Melville Cooper, Herbert Mundin, Una O' Conner, & Alan Hale Sr.) Conductor Erich Wolfgang Korngold laid down what in my estimation is one of the Greatest Anti-fascist scores in all of Film-History. The N-words chased Korngold ( A, Jew) out of fascist WW2 era-Germany, & although, Robin Hood takes place in the 12th. Century it obviously bodes as a well-constructed "Up Your's" to Franco, Hitler, & Mussolini. Robin Hood has many of the themes Modern Viewer's will find in "Star Wars" during it's height. The similarities are staggering, although done far Superior here. /// I received the news that Joseph Robinette (,,,,,,"Robinette",,,,????,,,,) Biden step down from they/ thems/ Presidential bid. ( About 1Pm. Sun/ 7-21) as i awake from my nappy-nappy. THE SPIRIT OF ROBIN HOOD 1938, LIVES. ON !!!! THE REPUBLIC SURVIVE'S !!!! Errol Flynn ( who by some reports was suspected of N-word tie's, to the point that the Big-wig's had Cary Grant spy on him.) Also, starred in two further out-standing boots on the ground WW2 era- Anti-fascist film's "Objective Burma," & "Edge of Darkness" as Director Michael Curtiz of course Directed the Greatest Romantic/ Nationalistic WW2 film "Casablanca," in the 1940's.

6-11-24 Thurs// First off I'm dealing with a GORGEOUS PRINT OF THIS FILM HERE FROM "YOUTUBE" "FREE" MOVIE'S. One of the best I've run across. 2. "Vertigo," is probably one of the best gaslighting movie's of ALL X !!!! James Stewarts noodle gets him into a whole World of stupid, that's porportional to the 1905 San Francisco Earthquake !!!! The trigonometry never fail's to lead even an intelligent man down the road of destruction. This is a Hitchcock warning shot straight out of Proverbs. 7. The Hey-Na-Ne-Na-Ne !!!! ( & in1958, Kim Novaks wuz "chorse".) Gavin Elster ( Tom Helmore) Approaches Stewart with the most cock-a-mamie ghost story on Earth about his "haunted," "wife" ( Kim Novak) but it's Novaks Golden Hill's that really do all the talking. /// Cinematographer Robert Burks gives the viewers gorgeous settings of Classic San Francisco. Classic car's, suit's, gown's etc. Tom Elster is a Great Hitchcock Villian. He's mostly off camera, but his diabolical nature reigns over every frame of this picture. // Upon initial viewing watching Novak & James Stewart roun-de-lay may seem tiresome, & trite, but upon evaluation it's rather sensual, & mysterious. (Off-screen) Elster, & "Madeleine Elster" ( Novak) set Stewart ( "John Ferguson") up in a web of "The Supernatural" ( 1958 Frisco, & Humboldt Redwoods State Park (????) + Robert Burks indescribable photography only add to the Supernatural air of the script.) Using her great beauty, soft voice, & womanly wile's, Maddy drives Stewart wild. ( into Elster & Maddys conniving hand's,) he begins a May/ December romance with Mad, & drives the play to its riveting ending. // The red flag's shooting off of Maddy are ASTRONOMICAL !!!! THROUGH THE FRICKIN' ROOF !!! But, "John" pursues relentless. He has a perfectly fine woman in "Midge Wood" (Barbara Bel Geddes,) but HEY, This Year's Model is irresistible to an aging man, so he swap's, trades. Bad for him, but good for us as we are about to ride into one of the most vicious, & brutal ( B-R-U-T-A-L !!!!!) Film-Noir plot-twist( Probably) in Film History !!!!! I'm gonna wrap up here, as, if you're a new viewer anything further would just spoil what lie's ahead for you. But, be warned & strap in cause it ain't nuthin' pretty !!!!! //// The Alec Coppel, Samuel Taylor (+) script is BRILLIANT !!!! Bernard Herrmans score,,,, peerless as usual. The cast ( Esp Stewart ) are Funtastic !!! Lighting, editing, ( probably Kraft's ( Hitch) remarkable.) This film is one of those Classic Movie's where the rubber just hit's the road !!!

6-6-24 /// Sabb// 5:30 PM// Some Old School Hollywooder's just had ( have) that "Ommphh-Factor." Put in the right vehicle their just magnetic as all get out. You can't take your eye's off of them even when they're performing the most menial of all task. Even today, U want to look as much like them as possible, pause the way they do, grin & bear it. Classic 1960's, Paul Newman was just such one of those Movie-star's for me. ( 1930's Gable, Cooper, Grant, James Dean, Wayne, Peck, Poitier. Bogie.) That's what a top-notch Actor/ Movie-Star could represent back in the Old day's. I'm watching 1966's "Torn Curtain," & for the life of me i want to run out & buy a suit & tie like Newman wears here. You role model the Actor from the performance. You want to be similar. Have your Paul Newman moment on some unsuspecting by-stander. // "Torn Curtain" may not be remembered today as a Hitchcock Masterpiece like "N/by Northwest," / "Rear Window,"/ "Vertigo" "Shadow of a doubt," " Strangers on a Train" "Rebecca," "Notorious"/ "Pyscho" "The Bird's" / "The 39 Step's" / "The Lady Vanishes" " Spellbound" / "Rope,"/ "Foriegn Correspondent"/ "Life boat" et. But, compiled with the Greatest Cold-war film's of the 1960's, "Judgement at Nuremberg"/ "1-2-3", The 1st. 3/ "James Bond" entries, "Doctor Strangelove," so on, this film fares extrodinarily high- mark's. // i stated earlier that this Film doesn't stand up to the Hitchcock Masterpiece's of the past,,,,,gotta reevaluate that drift. The Film holds the Hitchcockian high-stamp of excellence ( After, "The Bird's", "Psycho" & "Vertigo" it may seem like a let-down ( esp. with the deeply disappointing ( but fine) "Marnie" sandwiched in there,) but this thing is top $$ Hitch. I hadn't viewed this in (15-20 year's, (????) & those year's required maturity. For ( me) in my 20's, 30's,40's so on this film struck me as a yawn-fest, in my 60's, my understanding has ( obviously) broadened. Hitchcock was 67 in 1966 so it only stands to reason that he'd be making film's for older audience's. DDDDDUUUUHHHHHHH,,,,,,,,,,Julie Andrews when she's not "Mary Poppying", or "Sound O' Muzicking" all over the place during her career here,,,,,is really quite effective, & really quite Attractive. Quite. /// There's less emphasis on entertainment than in most Hitchcocks , & nearly no spectacle, but Hitch's vaunted suspense is in fine form. The film also, lacks Hitchcocks memorable villian-role. There's Wolfgang Kieling as "Gromex" who would have made for a spectacular Hitchcock villian, but he gets his"Shower scene" very early in the picture. Gunter Strack plays more a nuisance than a legitimate threat. Also, Paul Newmans top-less too much in this movie. Was that written into his contract ??? 10 top-less scene's,,,(???) For the Luv'a Mike ,,,,!!!! /// Oh, Yeah,,, on that note,,,1966 Newman was a REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, UNBELIEVABLY HANDSOME DUDE-O,,,,,,SO, after the Film, inadequacy issue's may begin to follow,,,,Just Sayin',,,,,,///the detail here is meticulous. The "Glam-slam" of former Hitchcocks doesn't really resonate here, there's a definite soft gloss, but avoiding the social-realism of 1960's French & British New Wave. This is definitely unapologetically Hollywood, yet the people& situations leave Hollywood gossamer far behind. Everything here seems entirely plausible, not fantastic. My reevaluation is that "Torn Curtain" ROCK'S !!!! A DEFINITE LOST MASTERPIECE !!!! /// For Hitch's BIG 50TH. FILM (!!!!) The World expected something on The level of "NBNW" or "Pyscho." rather whats on display here is basically an updated ( to 1966) version of a Hitchcock Gaumont era Classic style.

6-3-24 Wed // "I made him feel like a Good Samaritan." " Advertising men don't lie we produce"expedient exxaggeration." RogerThornhill ( Cary Grant, probably the original "Orange Man.") Shyster's his way through Wive's, lover's, Secretaries, & business-dealing's. He's the proverbial 1950's "Man in the grey flannel suit." Thornhill finds himself caught in a kafkaesques World of espionage, & intrigue, the ultimate Hitchcockian "Innocent man." Screenwriter Ernst Lehman utilize's extreme skill to summarize the Hitchcock credo that film-lover's had absorbed since the 1920's Silent-era into this masterpiece of suspense, comedy & political espionage. In fact, I chose this one for the 4th. this year, & to lead into the 2024, Presidential Election season. ( Where we have another Orange Man going at it in a rematch with a somnologistic, career-politican who also happens to be 50 cents short of a dollar.) Hitch, & Lehman carry on the Master's penchant for surrealism added into the bulwark, & Grant ( obviously, a hidden surrealist, & apparently a hallucinogenic. ) adds just the right bubble, humor, sexiness, & Classic Hollywood polish to lift this thing to previously unprecedented levels of extraordinary entertainment. // 7-4-24 Thurs/Take note's on the Original Orange-man, Lehman, & Hitchcock's seduction scene's with Eva Marie Saint. ( 100 year's young TODAY !!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GORGEOUS !!!! ) THIS IS HOW U TOTALLY S-C-O-R-E WITH A H-O-T, SEXY, AS# SOPHISTICATED, HIGHLY INTELLIGENT WOMAN !!! I've run it in real-X,,, even in the 1990's, IT WORKED !!!! ( Doesn't hurt that U can look at me & digest your meal at the same X.) If you're catching on by now that this film set in motion the James Bond Industrial Film Complex, U'd be first in line for that brand new spanning 75" smart TV !!!!! // Over the expanse of 65 year's, Our Orange-man, & the Original Orange-man kinda "zoom" upon the Presidential shrine of Mt. Rushmore today on the 4th. ( The 4th. Is'nt specified in the film, but I am watching it on the 4th, so I say the 4th !!!!) Is "Van Damme" ( James Mason) & his unnamed combine any more sinister than the Biden, deep-State yahoo's currently corroding & running roughshod over the United States of America ??? Your toss. ( I "Googled it,,, gas prices for an automobile was only 25 cent's (!!!!!) In 1959 ( & our reserve's were full ),,,,, so, I say Biden poses the far greater threat to National security !!!) Trump doesn't have Eva Marie Saint, but he does have Melania,,,,UUUHHHHH,,,,,,,HOPPY NEWS YEAR !!!! So, it looks like America just might pull through in the end. ORANGE MEN POWER, BABY !!!! ( There's also, a Satanic idol that contains microfiche going on here, but as of current X I have no ideal what the idol is or what it represents. I bet Grant, Hitch & Lehman knew. Basically, ya got a 1950's version of a "cookie" ( or "Maguffin" taking place here.)

6/30/24 Sun / Here's a standard that boast top-notch Acting from Film-legend's of "The Golden-Age of Hollywood." A quiet, reserved, & yet probing Direction from 1950's. Hollywood's Greatest "Social-Justice," Film-Director Stanley Kramer. A through script, & pacing ( Lotta talkin' going on here for the faint of Heart. Although, the subject matter warrants the latitude. You may find similarities in America's debasing, legal & social climate in 2024 to the descriptions of the "Weimer-era" & the rise of "National Socalism." ( I personally, bitterly oppose "Socalism," of any variety. It only leads to no-good.) Plus, this film has the added of being released at the X of the turning point of the Civil-right's era. Freedom rider's in America were ramping up protest in the South, so there is a distinct air of irony in the depiction of Nazi's on trial. ( As Maximillian Schell playing a Nazi Lawyer, coyly points out.) ( if I'm not mistaken "Eugenic's," & "racial purity were American past-time's long before the Thrid Reich, or Hitler.)// Some scenes stink to high-Heaven of what's commonly known as "Champagne Liberalism." ( or "Bleeding Heart Liberalism," back when this film was produced.) When Spencer Tracy could rifle himself out of a bath-tub filled with alcohol-induced vomit, he was a shining tower ( on screen) of just such liberalism at X's. Marlene Dietrich handles herself well, as her. Career schtick had been the "Mz. Bricks", characters in film for decades. Here, aging she proves she could perform just as well without all of the glitter, & the glamour, & seductress put-on. There's also, kinda a "Battle of the aging, self-destructive, soon to be dead, Classic Hollywierd icon's going on here between Judy Garland, & Montgomery Clift. Who wins the sweepstakes of most damaged, used-up mega-talent,,,??? My money's on the Jude. // There's a bit of an emphasis on "Not all Nazi's were Nazi's" going on here, probably to quell tension's ( of the X) of the newly erected Berlin Wall, & smothering potential sympathy for Krushchev, & "Mother Russia". // The 2nd. 1/2 of the film is where we get down to the reel nitty-gritty. Once, we bypass Kramers fawning over Spencer Tracy ( A ritual with Stanley Kramer.) We move onto the ( then) younger, 1950's Superstar's,,,,& wotta roster !!! /// Broken Judy Garland wins the sweepstakes as expected. ( She atleast, had the where-with-all, to remain sober on set. Kramer exploit's both actor's declining physical & mental states to enormous effect. Clift, Garland, & Dietrich show great fortitude, as all 3 pretty much exemplify.(The Soundie) High Glamour-era, & resolutely perform as they fade into the sunset. ( Maybe, they just really needed the $$, & the spotlight after all is the spotlight.) // There are stretch's in this film where It's kinda like that guy at an Office party who just keeps yammering on regardless of how many X's U check your watch, but overall the Movie captures the complicity of so many seemingly honorable men who sell their soul's to evil for a bag of peanuts. As I suspected the purpose of this Classic is to bridge Nazi rule over the early cold War era & keeping Berlin in play. If that means handling the Reich with kid gloves, than by all. means handle the. Riech with kid glove's. ( There's also, a gang of original "Twilight Zone" actor's represented here if you're a fan of that series. I sure am.) ( + Ray Teal. One of the 1950's All X Great Goombah. Character actor's. A definite favorite of mine. & he sure as Hell, Goom's herein !!!! In the celestial cess-pool he's probably only one-upped by Bruce Dern in the 1960's, although, Maximillian Schell comes pretty close to usurping the title here.)