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...setting is a Middle European monarchy during World War II. Most of the play takes place in 1943 when the monarch, feeling that Hitler's goose is cooked, is ready to talk turkey with the Social Democrats and Communists. Hoederer, the Communist leader (Charles Boyer), believes that for tactical reasons the party should join in a coalition. To the party purists this is treason, and they install an idealistic young convert (John Dall) as Hoederer's secretary, with orders to kill him. While the squeamish secretary is funking the assignment, his wife (Joan Tetzel) falls in love with...
...good half of the evening to become interesting, and never becomes impressive. Between the two extremes of which Sartre is master-the phony thrill and the incisive speech-lies a whole human world he barely grazes; his situations ring hollow, his people seem paperbacked. Only Hoederer, in Actor Boyer's fine portrayal, has shape or color; indeed, the best of Red Gloves is what Boyer brings...
...play is a cleverly-manipulated indictment of the internal workings of the Communist Party in an anonymous European country which M. Sartre does not call France. A young intellectual-idealist has been selected by Moscow to assassinate the national party leader (Boyer), who is believed to be preparing a compromise with the government. Before the agent can do this, his wife falls in love with the intended victim. He finally commits the murder just when he finds her in the arms of the leader...
...direction by Jed Harris is at least responsible for the lack of these little reminders that one usually gets in seeing a translation from another tongue. Mr. Boyer's accent is the only Gallic touch, and that is evenly balanced by the whole personality of John Dall (the assassin), who is as Indiana as all get-out. Mr. Dall's acting style is not unlike James stewart's, and that of course is not bad at all. Joan Tetzel plays the confusing role of the wife with assurance. In the female division, however, she is topped by the performance...
Honest and hearty congratulations to Mr. Boyer on his timely escape from the Casbah; ditto to M. Sartre on a really intelligent, gripping play...