Word: lamarre
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director John Cromwell has succeeded in maintaining throughout a high level of tension which occasionally breaks out in explosive dramatic shocks. The mood, even in its happy moments one of ominous fatalism, is set by Charles Boyer with his gloomy portrayal of Pepe le Moko, the underworld ruler. Hedy Lamarr, whose haunting mystery is the answer to an unexpressed desire in every man's subconscious, also stands with Mr. Boyer the test of the long, electric close-ups. The picture is notable for its attention to those details which aid in heightening the effect:--the irony of the blaring player...
Algiers (Charles Boyer. Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Spurin-Calleia; TIME, July...
Algiers (Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Spurin-Calleia; TIME, July...
Algiers (Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Calleia; TIME, July...
...informer (Gene Lockhart), backing away in terror as his executioners advance, jars a mechanical piano into action, dies to a ragtime tune. But best of all is the smoldering, velvet-voiced, wanton-mouthed femme fatale of Algiers, black-haired, hazel-eyed Viennese Actress Hedy Kiesler (Hollywood name: Hedy Lamarr). Her coming may well presage a renewal of the sultry cinema of Garbo and Dietrich. Hedy has been chiefly famous for her appearance, nude, in the Czechoslovakian film Extase, produced in 1933 by young Director Gustav Machaty as "a sermon in eugenics," exploited wherever U. S. cinema censors permitted, a picture...