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This unusual film was made in and near Barcelona during the death agonies of the Loyalist cause. It was produced and directed by the famed French novelist and soldier, Andre Malraux, from episodes in his book of the same title. The film had to be smuggled into France, where post-Munich timidity prevented its release. Throughout the German occupation it was hidden. Malraux's first & only film, it places him-as readers might have guessed from the cinematic elements in his writing-among the few top movie talents...
...what happened to Professor Teigne, but they will get 200,000 words-now stimulating, now baffling-about Chinese art, philosophy, politics and paradox, mixed in with gang fights, raids, a U.S. hero and heroine and hissing Japanese spies. Novelist Cahill's polar north lies somewhere between André Malraux's Man's Fate and Cartoonist Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, but lacks the invigorating climate of either...
...freelancer, and as art director of an advertising agency, snub-nosed Paul Rand still looks very much like the kid who spent his evenings studying commercial art at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. He has never stopped studying, and he insists that Critic Roger Fry, Novelist André Malraux and Philosopher John Dewey have taught him a lot about the uses of art, "although I don't understand them half the time...
...from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
...were the Ministries of Industrial Production, Labor and National Economy. If France has a winter of want the Communists, sharing responsibility, will not be in a position to blame the Government. The important Ministry of Information went to an independent, self-styled "leftwing revolutionary": brilliant, versatile Author-Adventurer Andre Malraux...