Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since 1940 I have received screen credits-for Waterloo Bridge, Mrs. Miniver, Random Harvest, Command Decision, and others-most of them favorably reviewed by TIME, yet my name was never mentioned. The same omission occurs in your Sept. i review of Me and the Colonel. The screenplay was written by S. N. Behrman and myself. Forgive my vanity, but tell your readers of my existence...
...white Teddy boys jumped a West Indian laborer and beat him with fists and clubs. A few nights later, another white gang beat up and robbed two Negro workers. The white wife of a colored man was jeered and spat upon by neighbors. Nottingham's Conservative M.P., Lieut. Colonel J. K. Cordeaux, told a mass meeting that it was a "scandal" that "foreigners" should come to Britain and drive up in cars to collect welfare benefits...
...Colonel. Danny Kaye, in one of his funniest films, as a Polish refugee stranded in Paris while the Wehrmacht approached in 1940, based on Jacobowsky and the Colonel, S. N. Behrman's 1944 Broadway version of a play by Austria's Franz Werfel (TIME, Sept...
...candle finally gets pointed in the right direction-south-and the rest of the film rattles along in an unpredictable Tin Lizzie of adventurous comedy, underscored by the slowly developing admiration of the colonel for his shy, uncannily ingenious passenger. Later, when the colonel comes swaggering into a German trap, pontifically confident that he can outwit the whole Nazi army, the picture explodes into a mock-chase climax that is sentimental, funny, and equally satisfying on both counts...
Less surely handled by Director Peter Glenville or either of the principals, Me and the Colonel would tip over into maudlin sociology or an embarrassing joke. But Actor Kaye, in his first completely straight role, keeps such a clear grasp of Jacobowsky's innate strength that every sly remark creeps through with the force of wisdom as well as the bite of wit. And Germany's Jürgens, curling back his lip and swirling his eyes as he exults, "I sniff battle-I'm alive again!" accomplishes the tricky task of making Actress Maurey...