Word: adler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Straus North defeated Stoughton, 7 to 0, on a pass to Marty Adler late in the first period...
...most important sacrifices, however, are those that hurt the characterizations. Leo G. Carroll, as Field Marshal Von Runstedt, becomes a mellowed, quipping old officer, tired of arguing with his superiors. This is hardly accurate. At the same time Luther Adler overplays the part of an insane bombastic Hitler. A more subtle portrayal would have been more effective, certainly more believable...
...movie has it, Hitler erred not in war but only in love, when he moved in on Adler's blonde wife (Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...
...Adler's skulduggery and Germany's setbacks look like cause & effect. Since he also plays the real Hitler, Actor Adler* makes the impersonations look plausible; he shows his versatility in brief imitations of Mussolini, Haile Selassie and Chamberlain. But The Magic Face, full of logical kinks and lurid banalities, hangs together no better as fiction than fact...
...Whose father, the late Jacob Adler, was a pillar of the Yiddish theater...