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Counter-Attack (Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman; TIME, April...
Counter-Attack (Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman; TIME, April...
Counter-Attack (Paul Muni, Mar guerite Chapman; TIME, April...
Counter-Attack (Columbia) has its off moments, but they do not keep it from being an absorbing and notable picture. Its story: a Russian paratrooper (Paul Muni) and a Partisan girl (Marguerite Chapman), seeking vital data about the location of enemy troops, are trapped with eight German soldiers in the basement of a shelled factory. The two Russians are armed, and they have lantern light and candles enough to last perhaps a week. An initialed German revolver leads them to suspect that an officer, who would have the information they seek, is hiding in disguise among their prisoners. Using their...
...beautiful photography, to Scriptwriter John Howard Lawson (who also wrote Sahara), and to the eight Germans who, barring some excesses forced on them by the script, make up a supporting cast the like of which is dreamed of but seldom seen. In his fatter, more difficult role Paul Muni is as fine as they are so long as he takes it easy, but when he gets busy as an actor, his sincere, carefully paragraphed work seems unreal beside the Germans' snapshot authenticity...