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...guerrilla leader, Pablo, Hemingway's terrible symbol of a man devastated by the fear of death, Akim Tamiroff has some magnificent, all but tragic moments. As Pilar, Hemingway's salty symbol of Spain's people, Greek Actress Katina Paxinou would walk away with any less leaden show. Her hawk-fine face, wallowing walk, Goyaesque style and Noah Beery laugh assure her a rich future, if only she can find roles spacious enough. As the Soviet journalist, Karkov, Konstantin Shayne makes his characterization of a political commissar the most electrifying bit in years...
...story that could only happen in a pulp magazine or Hollywood, but somehow it turns out to be good entertainment, so everybody's happy except Rommel. The picture is distinguished by two things--the dialogue, which is superb, and the acting of all concerned, with top honors going to Akim Tamiroff and Erich von Stroheim. The latter, who is continuing where he left off in World War I as the Horrible Hun, plays Marshal Rommel in a way that will not detract at all from the legend of the same name...
...photo-effective Arizona sunlight) to the glossiness of its overall atmosphere (redolent of slick-paper magazine fiction), this picture is as Hollywoodish as it well could be. Once again, a packaging job of high sheen fails to conceal the fact that there is very little product inside. Worst error: Akim Tamiroffs irrelevant overacting of the part of an Egyptian hotelkeeper...
...excellent. A de-glamorized Hedy Lamarr--as Sweets Ramirez, the can-factory worker-is infinitely more fetching than she ever was in silks and sables. Frank Morgan, playing the devout dog-loving old miser. Pirate, steals the show, and, as followers of Pilon, Michael Qualen, Allen Jenkins, and especially Akim Tamiroff are superb...
...Corsican Brothers (Small; United Artists) are (both of them) Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who has yet to make up his mind who he is: his father, or Ronald Colman. They are also the offspring of Alexandre Dumas. Their eventual defeat of Baron Colonna (Akim Tamiroff), who slew their parents, is accomplished with heavyhanded, uninspired direction and all the corny hokum that accompanies the routine Hollywood romantic picture...