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...that day Swiss, Dutch, French and English newspapers published the following item: "Dr. Robert M. W. Kempner, ex-legal adviser of the pre-Hitler Prussian State Police Administration was executed by a firing squad of the Nazi Secret Police (Gestapo) as an enemy of the Hitler Regime." He actually had caught me, but after three weeks of the third degree, friends succeeded in getting my release and I could escape death. Himmler's and Heydrich's police machinery is terrible but can be smashed easier than most people think...
...temperamental Turas fit perfectly into the stock company's plot to keep information from the Gestapo that would wreck the Polish underground movement. She dallies with the informer (Stanley Ridges), who dies melodramiably onstage as his killers raise the curtain on their bombed and abandoned theater; he undertakes the role of his life by impersonating the dead spy. He is doing well when his vanity pricks him to ask the Gestapo head his opinion of Tura, the pre-war actor. Growls the Gestapoman: "What he did to Shakespeare, we are now doing to Poland...
What the Polski company does to the Gestapo is first-rate entertainment- thanks to a score of good performances by the cast, fresh dialogue and plot (authored by Lubitsch and Melchior Lengyel) and the sure, saucy, suspenseful Lubitsch direction. Miss Lombard's natural, likable, vibrant performance is up to her standard. Mr. Benny, who plays his role straight, doesn't need his prop stogies to be funny...
...welcomed to the Germany of 1939; he has a Nazi commission to dig for traces of an Aryan civilization. In the process of proving that the progress of civilization depends on a few gifted people (mostly scientists, naturally), he excavates 20-odd live German scientists out from under the Gestapo noses...
Mister I was undoubtedly designed for propaganda as well as pleasure, but the gruff Gestapo is too charmingly outfoxed to be taken seriously. The Gestapo head, biding his time, huffs: "Rome wasn't built in a day-even by Mussolini...