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...Emmanuel (Two Cities-United Artists) tells the story of a sort of Jewish Mr. Chips, so creakily gallant and suicidally innocent an old gentleman that he goes from England to Germany in 1938 to look for the mother of a distraught Jewish refugee boy. He finds security, of an uneasy sort, in a seedy-bourgeois Jewish pension. But he soon learns that in Hitler's Berlin it is as much as your life is worth to ask for somebody's address, and that if you are a Jew, your British citizenship is worth only a laugh. When...
...incredible guilelessness of Isaac Emmanuel's errand, and his courage and dignity before his brutal judge and torturers, serve all the more to convince the Gestapo that he has a great deal to cover up. After prison scenes which recall those of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the old man is released, thanks to an Anglo-Jewish cabaret star and a Nazi bigshot (Walter Rilla) who is infatuated with her. When at length old Isaac does find the boy's mother, she has married a Nazi and has so wholly betrayed all that was ever good...
...Among them: Catholic Poet Pierre Emmanuel, Socialist Salomon Grumbach, Communist Maurice Magnien...
...conference began. Churchill was speaking when the ELAS men turned up: Communist Party Secretary George Siantos, EAM Secretary-General Demetrios Partsalides, also a Communist, and ELAS General Emmanuel Mandakis, hero of Crete, who is suspected by the British of being a Communist. All wore British battledress, all were relieved of their pistols at the doors. Then the door was locked, the key handed to the ELAS...
Elena of Italy, towering wife of pint-sized Ex-King Victor Emmanuel, made a royal request of a U.S. friend: "some spools of white thread" with which to spend her time "making clothes and embroidering bibs...