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Slightly Prostituted. Judgment at Nuremberg is Schell's second American film (he played a hobnail-minded Nazi officer in The Young Lions), and he has since completed two more: he is the German tutor in the film version of Five Finger Exercise, and he plays the i?th century...
...years, Soviet economists have inveighed against installment buying as simply another hobnail in the capitalist heel grinding the faces of the poor. When a Western worker lost his job, they declared, he lost his car, his furniture, even the home on which he could no longer keep up payments. Last week, in an unabashed about-face, workers all over Russia were invited to sign up for the installment plan as a wide range of Soviet consumer goods were made available on credit...
...Hoagy Carmichael (Kapp LP). Even in his rare lyric moments, Singer-Composer Carmichael sounds like a man warbling in a tin shed. In this selection of his songs, mostly from the '40s and '50s, his virtues are manic enthusiasm, an antic rhythmic sense and an endlessly absorbing hobnail accent: "You cain if you tray-a-y/ . . . Ole buttermilk...
...wolf. British Actor Alan (The Winslow Boy) Webb plays the part so delightfully that he is even able to raise some hopes for the play. But the play grows increasingly harried and hack. And though David Niven does a nice job as the lover, Ratoff brings hobnail direction to scenes that need dancing pumps. Actress Swanson, in an all-things-to-both-men role, is of no help whatever to either...
...democracy. He was elected to Parliament as one of the ten "cultural representatives" provided for in the new constitution. Says he, with scientific understatement: "After two years I became disappointed and left my country." He delights in showing in pantomime the differences between Nazi and Communist techniques-the clomping, hobnail boot approach of the Nazis, the sly sneakup of the Communists...