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...have a better reason for throwing his life away?" ask the big ads for this glossy U.S. remake of a 1930 German classic. The answer the admen clearly expect from every red-blooded male is: No, not when the "reason" is long-limbed May (rhymes with thigh) Britt, Hollywood's newest sex goddess. This is not the answer they are likely to get from anyone who saw Marlene Dietrich in the original Blue Angel...
...Lola Lola, the hardhearted Lorelei whose siren song lures a respectable, middle-aging botany teacher (Curt Jurgens) into degradation, Swedish Actress Britt makes a stunning physical impression. She slithers among the cabaret chairs like an insolent incarnation of sin, and despite her tone-deafness, delivers the familiar Falling in Love Again and a new song, Lola Lola ("lives for love"), with throaty seductiveness. But she is never called upon to display even a modest range of emotion, never conveys anything of the sense of mystery and veiled secret that underlay Marlene's tough tart...
...Newcomer Britt's acting ability still remains to be proved, there is no question about the professional skill of longtime German Box Office Idol Jurgens. Though he is almost too handsome for the role of the petty-tyrannical high school teacher (played in the original by Emil Jannings), Jurgens subtly conveys the unavowed jealousy that flares up within him whenever he catches his students ogling Lola Lola. And at the film's climax, when he is persuaded to play the clown in Lola Lola's revue before an audience of old school cronies. Jurgens penetrates rare emotional...
...booze his way into his wife's disaffections. He gets popped by a North Korean MIG, bails out over enemy territory. Mitchum, of course, has only to scoot home and catch a quick shower in order to nest down with the missing flyer's spouse (May Britt). Instead, the red-blooded rat turns true blue; he bellylands his plane, heaps Philips over his shoulder and reels (about 25) back to their own lines. There Philips' repentant wife waves disconsolate farewell to Mitchum, but he does not even notice. He is staring at those vapor trails...
...Brando, with an Actor's Studio slur to his German accent, plays "the young, golden god of war"; Montgomery Clift is a tenement Jew persecuted in his barracks; Dean Martin portrays the Broadway high-liner who goodhumoredly admits his own cowardice. And in an example of sophisticated sex, May Britt takes the part of a German commander's homefront spouse--a sort of Berlin community bed-warmer with those "rest your head here, soldier" eyes and a half-mast evening gown leaving only the moral question to a man's imagination...