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...disguises are removed from the kindly or officious or indifferent people who surround Marie, and she learns that Tenoki, the Japanese importer (Leslie Fenton) and Crawbett (Spencer Tracy), the U. S. student of tropical diseases, and Ratcliff (Robert Loraine), the genial English visitor, are secret service agents of their respective countries, bent on forestalling the enemy to world peace, Brogard (Siegfried Rumann). The picture winds up to a climax which, played in the power house of a dam, with the turbines screaming and plenty of dynamite on hand, is as thrilling as anything brought to the screen this year...
...Cherie makes them. Unfortunately a German agent, Staub, to whom she once gave her love for a few postcards of France and a gilded Eiffel Tower of lead, and who has since gone to the dogs because of a native marriage, finds her out and lets U. S. Commissioner Crawbett know. Cherie collects the money from Tsamatsui, buys everything necessary for her voyage home. On her last afternoon she strolls into the American Zone. The bullet that hits her is legalized by two bottles of liquor thrust into her stiffening hands. Home at last to France sails Cherie, tenderly laid...
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