Word: ninotchkas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-war Italian and French elections, although its versions of Western life are dishonest. The major fault of the film is in the directing; the transition between Garbo the Comrade and Garbo the Siren is to abrupt. However, the plot and dialogue are extremely amusing. People should see "Ninotchka" and get all possible laughs from black-bearded Communism of fifteen years...
...Communist for the FBI (Warner) bucks a longtime box-office jinx. Except for 1939's deft Ninotchka, which turned laughter loose on Communism, none of Hollywood's anti-Communist movies (e.g., The Red Menace, The Iron Curtain, The Red Danube) has fared well with the customers. The Warner Brothers, who landed in the black with 1939's Confessions of a Nazi Spy, now try to turn the same trick against the Reds...
...Vienna, Ninotchka, Ernst Lubitsch's sprightly 1939 spoof of Communists and the U.S.S.R., could no longer be seen. The movie had packed two of the city's theaters for weeks. But when the Russians took their turn at policing Vienna's international district, they "suggested" that it was time to change the bill...