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Bathed in the intrigue of Lisbon, "The Conspirators" lacks nothing in the way of excitement and surprise -- except Humphrey Bogart. Warners' has assembled its best espionage talent in this opus with Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Paul Henreld, and Hedy Lamarr carrying on one big game of Guess...
...been done before, and many of its ideas have been repeated in such films as "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" and "A Guy Named Joe." Warner Brothers' current re-make is a bit too well cast, for in order to do justice to Paul Henreid, John Garfield, Sidney Greenstreet, George Coulouris, Edmund Gwenn, and a host of others, they have made a haunting idea into a long and talky picture...
...Between Two Worlds" achieves a dramatic excellence that hits you between the eyes at only one point--where big and jovial Sidney Greenstreet as the Examiner interviews the applicants for admission into the Beyond. While a false air of attempted spiritual tone ruins the atmosphere in most of the rest of the movie, here Greenstreet does an inspired...
...Balkans, to Paris, met many interesting people in the course of his researches. In Geneva there was cold, gracious Grodek (Victor Francen), who described himself as "an employer of spy labor." He was writing a biography of St. Francis. In Athens there was bulbous, unctuous Mr. Peters (Sydney Greenstreet). Mr. Peters was also in Belgrade and Paris. And everywhere there were whispers of a cryptic organization called the Eurasian Credit Trust, whose headman turned up for a climax of blackmail and gunfire, with Mr. Peters gasping his life out on a mess of thousand-franc notes. By then Author Leyden...
This film version of Eric Ambler's A Coffin For Dimitrios goes in for rich, talky theatricality rather than realism. But on its own level it is lively entertainment, distinguished by some better-than-fair performances (Veterans Lorre and Greenstreet, wolfish Newcomer Zachary Scott and mousily appealing Steven Geray...