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...Kansas City Star lives the quietly comfortable life of a well-liked, well-to-do Midwesterner. Its conservatism is structural, for its owners are 172 key employees. In salary and dividends, they draw up to $50,000 a year. Even one of its police reporters, William Moorhead, is a country-clubbing capitalist. During the depression, the Star laid off no one, cut no salaries. The American Newspaper Guild has never made much headway on its staff. Staunchly Republican, the Star makes a point of getting along with the right kind of Democrats, like Roy Roberts' sometime poker and drinking...
Nearly all the supporting performances, especially those of Fredric March, Betty Field, and Agnes Moorhead as a confused spinster, are warm and sympathetic; and young Skippy Homeier captures as remarkably as ever the pathetic, frightening, overtones of the poisoned, pernicious little hero he created on the stage...
...Jewish doctor (Steve Geray) treats his injured hand. A theatrical costumer (Agnes Moorhead) gives him clothes. Not all the people he meets are brave, or intelligent, or kind. His former sweetheart (Karen Verne) has married a Nazi, his brother is a Storm Trooper. But his old friend Paul Roeder (Hume Cronyn), a rabbity little workman who is grateful to the Führer for his job and his three babies, also turns out to have a heart...
...novel of the same title (TIME, Sept. 28, 1942), had the makings of one of the finest of anti-Fascist moving pictures. It has become, instead, two hours of handsome, earnest inadequacy, which comes to life only by fits & starts-most memorably in the performances of Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorhead, Steve Geray. A free use of stream-of-consciousness dialogue and of comment by the ghost of one of the escapers, to point the moral and adorn the tale, succeeds only in diluting both, far more regrettably than the old came-the-dawn subtitles used...
NELSON TRIMBLE LEVINGS Levingshire Plantation Moorhead, Miss...