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...After a happy Christmas Eve visit with their grownup children, Mr. & Mrs. Willi Fehlauer were returning to their Berlin home in the early hours of Christmas morning. Millions of other people around the world were doing the same thing, but the difference in the Fehlauers' case was that their home lay in the Edelhofdamm, a street dividing West and East Berlin. The Fehlauers had almost reached their lodgings when three Russian soldiers guarding the end of the street took them into custody for no apparent reason. Old Mrs. Fehlauer fainted. Willi Fehlauer, a quick-witted former Wehrmacht colonel, told...
...production is not quite all of a piece. Thirteen-year-old Iris Mann (The Innocents) plays the brat with remarkable skill, and more convincingly than brilliantly stagy Florence McGee, a grownup, did in 1934. And, as in 1934, Katherine Emmet is impressive as the grandmother. As the schoolmistresses, however, Kim Hunter and-despite very good moments-Patricia Neal display a certain lack of shading in their roles and of full impact in certain of their scenes. But if such limitations stress how much the acting can mean to a play, the whole evening proves how much a good play...
Forbidden Games. A small French masterpiece that looks at a grownup's warring world through the realistic eyes, of a child (TIME...
Forbidden Games. A small French masterpiece that looks at a grownup's warring world through the realistic eyes of a child (TIME...
Forbidden Games (Robert Dorfman; Times Film Corp.) is a small French masterpiece that looks at a grownup's world of war through the uncompromising eyes of a child. Five-year-old Paulette (Brigitte Fossey) sees her mother & father machine-gunned to death among the pushbikes of a French refugee column in 1940. Dazed and uncomprehending, she wanders off the highway clutching her dead puppy, and is taken in by a family of French farmers. Here, surrounded by the brutality of war and the brutishness of the peasants, she turns for friendship to the family's eleven-year...