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Incorrigible cinemaddicts may insist on regarding Charles Boyer as a romantic figure-even in his shabby overcoat and battered hat. But the hero of Confidential Agent is far from a stock heroic figure. He is middleaged, greying, easily winded and persistent rather than brave. A Spanish Loyalist soldier whose wife and child have been killed, he is sent on a confidential mission to England in 1937 to keep a shipment of coal out of the Nationalists' hands. He is beaten up, shot at and framed for murder. He is chased up dusty stairways and down drab, foggy alleys...
...alive the spirit of Republican Spain." And in Russia thousands of Spanish children were housed and educated. Socialist-minded Diplomat de Palencia does not dwell on the political activities of the Republic's refugees, does her best to lay the bogey of Communism that has so damaged the Loyalist cause in America. But her book leaves no doubt that doctrinal disputes mean far less to her than does a united front to carry the smouldering torch of freedom back to Spain...
...battle areas discussing the poetry of Robert Bridges with his companion. Novelist Christopher Isherwood ("Y Hsiao Wu"). In 1936 Icelanders watched the same outlander read the works of Lord Byron while jogging through their bleak countryside on a pony. In 1937 he worked as a censor in the Spanish Loyalist Government. In 1940 this unusual apparition settled improbably in Brooklyn...
...amusingly archaic, Technicolored story about an indolent U.S. café-pianist (Dennis Morgan) and a Riffhounding French officer (Bruce Cabot), who are rivals for a French songstress (Irene Manning). This triangle is menaced by El Khobar, masked leader of the intransigent Riffs. But the pianist (who once fought for Loyalist Spain) turns out to have quite a way with the natives. El Khobar is not so black-hearted as black-faced and vocal. He and his tribesmen sing practically everything except Been Wukkin' on de Railroad. In the long run El Khobar is exonerated, the pianist gets the girl...
Before the delegates stood the man called Drug Tito. He heard them acclaim him Marshal of Yugoslavia, the first in history. Now he could drop his incognito, step forth officially as Josip Broz, Croatian metalworker, Communist labor leader and fighter for Loyalist Spain against Francisco Franco. The new Marshal's first act: substitution of the conventional army salute for the Partisans' greeting-the clenched fist...