Word: moyzisch
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...again Joseph (All About Eve) Mankiewicz's direction is too heavy-handed for this light-fingered subject. The picture has several good chases through Istanbul and Ankara, but the film adaptation of onetime German Attaché L. C. Moyzisch's 1950 book, Operation Cicero, stresses screenplay rather than gunplay. Sample: when Cicero delivers his first batch of film to Moyzisch, he says pompously: "Destiny has held out its hand to you tonight. Take it and hold...
James Mason, with his polished playing of the poker-faced valet, helps iron out some of the dialogue wrinkles in this cloak & dagger drama. Also lending a bit of credulity to the proceedings: Oscar Karlweis as Moyzisch and John Wengraf as his boss, Ambassador Franz von Papen...
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