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...BARNABY CONRAD JR. New Haven, Conn...
...Died. Conrad Veidt, 50, cinemephis-topheles; of a heart attack during a golf game; in Hollywood. He nearly always played the bemonocled villain, in recent years had been notably villainous in A Woman's Face, Escape, Casablanca...
...LIEUT. CONRAD MOSES...
Even the supporting cast does an unusually creditable job. Paul Henreid of "Now Voyager" fame does a sympathetic job on a Czech patriot, and handles his anti-fascist speeches with meritable tact. Claude Rains is a superb Vichy superintendent of police, while Conrad Veidt does an excellent job on a stock Hollywood character--the Gestapo chief...
...secondary characters, an international conglomerate which might easily have slipped into run-of-the-mile Hollywood caricatures, manage, with the aid of some smooth dialogue to over shadow the big three on numerous occasions, Claude Raines, as the boot-licking, opportunistic Vichy chief of police is at his best. Conrad Veidt plays a Gestapo chief who, unlike the usual blustering buffon that Hollywood Nazis usually are, is more sinister than laughable. Peter Lorre, an unseen corpse after the first few scenes, and Dooley Wilson, playing "As Time Goes By" to repair broken hearts, complete the list of ingredients in this...