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...footnote to your footnote re TIME's March 10 movie review of 5 Fingers ["20th Century-Fox publicists . . . claim that the spy 'Cicero' conveniently turned up in Ankara when the picture was shooting on location...
...interest of truth, and in defense of 20th Century-Fox's excellent publicists, I can corroborate, and if necessary substantiate, the fact that "Cicero conveniently turned up in Ankara . . ." I was there myself . . . and I do know that this statement is correct...
...Cicero and Demosthenes were the greatest orators of all time; Truman, in fact, used to try to write his speeches in the style of Cicero, but gave up-he does not say when...
...publicists, expert at detecting espionage agents, claim that Cicero conveniently turned up in Ankara when the picture was shooting on location...
...again Joseph (All About Eve) Mankiewicz's direction is too heavy-handed for this light-fingered subject. The picture has several good chases through Istanbul and Ankara, but the film adaptation of onetime German Attaché L. C. Moyzisch's 1950 book, Operation Cicero, stresses screenplay rather than gunplay. Sample: when Cicero delivers his first batch of film to Moyzisch, he says pompously: "Destiny has held out its hand to you tonight. Take it and hold...