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Grand Illusion (Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay; TIME, Sept...
Grand Illusion (Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay; TIME, Sept. 26). You Can't Take It With You (James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore. Edward Arnold; TIME, Sept...
...least kinetic and one of the most absorbing of cinema's innumerable treatments of the World War. Concerned not with fighting but with respite from fighting, it investigates a group of French inmates of a German prison camp. The prisoners-principally an austere patrician, Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay), his mechanic, Marechal (Jean Gabin), and a generous fellow, Rosenthal (Dalio), who shares the canned delicacies sent by his rich family-naturally try to escape. Director Renoir, however, builds his plot, not around the success or failure of this enterprise, but around their relations with each other, with their guards...
Razumov (Andre Daven) is a French production with English subtitles of Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes, which was published in 1911 when the terrorism of Nihilists and Anarchists in Russia was capturing popular imagination. Razumov (Pierre Fresnay) is a Russian student with no interest in politics and on the verge of a brilliant scholastic career when he finds a boyhood friend named Haldin (Jean-Louis Barrault) hiding in his rooms after assassinating the Prime Minister. Unwillingly stirred by sympathy, Razumov tries to help Haldin escape, but is trapped into betraying him. Tsarist police then force him to become...
Noah. Ingratiating Pierre Fresnay as the First Navigator in a play as charming in its way as The Green Pastures, which is also on Broadway again...