Word: muny
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...movie is somewhat redoemed by Peter Lorre's excellent portrayal of a German professor, just released from a concentration camp and offered a position in Argentina. Lorre combines macabre surrealism with a sympathetic Paul Muni touch in interpreting this interesting and unusual character...
Cornel Wilde, a much-publicized new-comer to Hollywood, is very acceptable in the role of Chopin, and Paul Muni as the composer's lovable, bewhiskered piano teacher gives the picture that certain touch which sometimes means the difference between a mediocre and a first-rate production. In a performance perhaps worthy of award recognition, he changes rapidly from pathos to humor and frequently lifts the action to heights of emotional impact...