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Wilson (Alexander Knox, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Coburn; TIME...
...that the suspense is purely academic. In part it is due to the incredible elegance of the production and photography, which makes the whole film more memorable as a museum piece than as a hair-raiser. As a result, several excellent performances, notably those of Laird Cregar, Sir Cedric Hardwicke (as the landlord), Sara Allgood and Merle Oberon, are not as exciting as they should be. Exciting enough is Miss Oberon's cancan (see cut). Notable exception to the general thrillessness is Doris Lloyd as she backs up, shaking and gasping, while the camera, personifying the Ripper, saunters jaggedly...
From Ankara came a footnote. London Daily Express Correspondent Cedric Salter quoted an unnamed Rumanian who saw Hitler four weeks ago: "I would not say that the war has changed Hitler much outwardly, but of late it has developed one side of his character abnormally. Before the war he was half mystic, half brutal opportunist. The opportunist has faded and with his growing personal solitariness he has become more & more otherworldly. He sleeps badly . . . rarely rises before 10:30 or 11... insists upon being alone for at least an hour each day. . . . His habits are even simpler than they were...
...quietly intrepid priest (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) is no showy hero. He tries to conduct a religious service strictly on the sly; it is only when his death stares him in the face that he stands erect and prays aloud...
Britons got a vivid, close-up description of Adolf Hitler as he appeared to a recent visitor-nervous as a thwarted cat, biting his fingernails, drinking quantities of sweet champagne. Cedric Salter, Istanbul correspondent of the London Daily Express, wrote that he got the description from an unnamed participant in recent conferences to which the Führer had summoned four satellites (King Boris of Bulgaria, Admiral Nicholas Horthy of Hungary, Marshal Ion Antonescu of Rumania and Croat Puppet Ante Pavelich). The dispatch added...