Word: blackmarketeers
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...Third Man is the co-feature on the Goodbye bill at the Welles, and this is one of the most wonderful mystery movies ever made. Orson Welles plays a blackmarket kingpin who is killed in an accident (or is he?) and Joseph Cotton plays the American writer who investigates the death. The story is hard to beat, the little touches (watch for the cat in the doorway) are brilliant, and Welles is Welles. The "Third Man Theme" is a catchy little accordian tune that tops off a great flick...
...drinks a great deal when unhappy, sports an odd assortment of minor characters; they are bit parts, from which the actors have squeezed everything. Fat Sidney Greenstreet, with fez, is Farrari, the jovial "leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca." Peter Lorre is a funny, intense worm who sells blackmarket visas to refugees stranded in the unoccupied French city; the producers could afford to lead him off screaming after fifteen minutes: but in that time he created a lasting figure...
While the great tradition remains 75 years after the first performance, this year's show will have many changes from the original production. Coordinate instruction long ago brought female actresses into female parts. Tickets will also be available for considerably less than a blackmarket $30 price, and the audience which will venture over to Fogg Art Museum probably will be far less famous. Yet 75 years is a long time. Boston has become less sedate, and the performance will be less pretentious, but the idea is certainly as ambitious. Whether the critics rave again remains to be seen...
...attending the Salzburg Festival would tend to overlook the dilemma of Austria, for there he would hear one of the world's finest orchestras, some of the best singers, and see good theater in a city which lost only its railway station in the war. Openly buying at the blackmarket exchange rate, he might not notice that lemons are unobtainable because the legal rate of 10 schillings to the dollar is prohibitive to Italian exporters. He would not realize that Austria is a thoughfare for refugees from Eastern Europe. He would not know that hired man working sixty hours...
...Stopped the blackmarket trade in German gold, by which the Nazis put their capital in Swiss francs...
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