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When a young Nazi disappears from a Prague restaurant washroom, 26 Czech hostages are jailed. Though the coroner's verdict is suicide, none of the hostages is released. Reason: one of them (Oscar Homolka), a Czech collaborationist, has investments which Nazi officials want. The magnate's daughter (Miss Rainer) and her quisling fiancé set out to bribe his way to freedom. Their efforts involve them, unwittingly, in Prague's underground. One member of the underground is prepared to "confess" that he "murdered" the Nazi in order to bring about the release of the hostages. Reason...
...still are a few Russians left, Hedy is crossed up by her tutor who becomes state censor and executioner himself after arranging a fatal accident for his predecessor. The line of Russians that become Kremlin corpses after getting that job looks like a parade course in Sociology with Oscar Homolka standing out as Vasiliev, the Bolshevik bloodhound's bloodhound. Both Clark Gable and Hedy get on the Reds' blacklist, he because his journalistic scoops have been smuggled out of Stalinland and she because her father (tap irvisaged Felix Bressart) was too nosey. But though Hedy's only a valet...
...contraption for making people invisible. However, the story rapidly runs out of breath, thereafter staggers through a plodding plot about a fatuous young moneybags (John Howard) who is inexplicably attracted to the unseen subject of the Barrymorian experiments (Virginia Bruce). Added but unnecessary wrinkles are furnished by eyebrowed Oscar Homolka, a gangster who steals Barrymore's machine for nefarious purposes...
...further news of Actor Homolka...
Fortnight ago Czech Playwright Karel Capek's Power and Glory was produced in London with Vienna-born Oscar Homolka in the two leading roles. On opening night most of the women in a hushed audience wore black, aware that Homolka would come straight to the theatre from the inquest following his young wife's death from an infection...