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...best conveyed by its full title, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Ui is Hitler. He and Goebbels, Goring and Roehm, under various aliases, are presented as Chicago gangsters who muscle into the vegetable trust (the Depression-ravaged German industrialists) and bulldoze the honest but senile leading citizen (Hindenburg) into legalizing their protection racket...
...rest of the cast is uneven. John Cazale does well as a funereally unctuous Goebbels, while Jaime Sanchez simply rants as Goring. The most dis concerting performance is that of Sully Boyar, who plays Hindenburg as a gemütlicher grandpapa with a Jewish inflection. The ultimate failure rests with Pacino, who leaves a final impression of Hitler as a poor immigrant boy who made it very very...
Stavisky himself (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a two-bit swindler blown up to a Hindenburg of a con man, manipulating fake international corporations and floating fake bond issues. Stavisky thinks he's left his old world of petty fraud behind, and Resnais seems to agree with him, emphasizing the discontinuity between the pickpocket and the cosmopolitan "financier." Stavisky affects history in a way a pickpocket cannot, Resnais maintains; I'affaire Stavisky, when it's blasted out of the water, shakes the Popular Front Government of Leon Blum and forces the deportation of Leon Trotsky, who until then had enjoyed political...
Died. Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin Sr., 78, early aviator who made the first transatlantic dirigible round trip in the Hindenburg; in San Francisco. It was Aldrin's son and namesake who, on the Apollo 11 mission, became the second man to set foot on the moon...
Giant airships vanished from the skies after the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg exploded and burned in 1937. But airship enthusiasts, buoyed by little more than hope, have remained at their drawing boards, designing huge lighter-than-air dirigibles that they believe could still compete effectively against other forms of transportation...