Word: gestapo
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...sophisticated dialogue comedy; "Rise and Shine" recalls the Joe College musicals of several years ago. Yet both move along briskly, boast a few new twists, and are unpretentiously slap-happy--a pleasant relief from war bulletins and the topheavy sagas of Bogart, Scott or Lynn vs. the entire Gestapo...
Himmler has been portrayed by some as a sadistic weakling, a fretful schemer who rose to power through loyalty to Hitler. A onetime official of the Berlin Gestapo, now a refugee in England, described the situation thus: "Without him [Heydrich], Himmler would be just a senseless dummy. . . . Heydrich is young and intelligent, brutal, despotic and merciless. He uses Himmler cleverly. . . . Himmler shines while Heydrich works. Himmler betrays loyalties and friends, Heydrich annihilates them...
...Henker. This may have been the animadversion of a man who hated them both. But Reinhard Heydrich is the man of brains and the man of action of the Geheime Staatspolizei, better and more darkly known as the Gestapo...
Because it is virtually impossible to make current history credible on the screen, Joan is more melodrama than tragedy. But Director Robert Stevenson knows how to curl the hair: he moves his camera with breath-holding suspense through the Gestapo shadows of occupied Paris...
Ominous is the word for Alexander Granach's performance as a Gestapo bloodhound. The squat, square-headed, muscle-bound sleuth ticks along with the sinister near silence of a clock. He never speaks; his approach is heralded by the patient squeak of his shoes. Actor Granach knew his role well. One of Germany's best actors, but a Jew, he escaped from his country a stride ahead of the real Gestapo...