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About once a month a similar bundle of half-truths, lies and simple absurdities slithers out of USA's offices on Pushkin Street in Red-run East Berlin. Free and unrequested, these magazines go by mail to editors, union leaders and other influential men in Western Germany. The Iron Curtain protects the Red editors from libel and copyright suits...
People in Pushkin's time were undoubtedly impressed by such Baroque elements of horror as waxen images, howling mastiffs, voices from the tomb, and winking corpses. Today's movie audiences, a comparatively cynical lot, realize that these are simply props and studio effects. Nevertheless, when they turn up in "The Queen of Spades," they are done well enough to cause several genuine shudders...
...Pushkin's tale deals with a young Russian officer who is looking for the secret of success at cards. The time is the early 19th century, at the height of the great Russian faro craze. The officer, played by Anton Walbrook in this British adaptation, is a very intense young man who believes in "taking life by the throat" to get what he wants. In the process of taking life by the throat, the officer delves into black magic, frightens a mysterious old countess to death, and eventually goes...
Walbrook's acting is suitably romantic, complete with palsied gestures and tremblings of the nether lip. However, he is addicted to the phrase, "I luff you," which sounds ludicrous in spite of the fact that Pushkin may have written it. Dame Edith Evans plays the elderly countess with great attention to realistic detail, and Yvonne Mitchell is highly attractive as Walbrook's inamorata...
...camel caravans from Turkestan. It also had the reputation of being a restless, independent place. The Cossacks and peasants of the Orenburg region had mounted one of the most troublesome popular uprisings of the 18th Century against Catherine the Great, an event made memorable for all Russians in Pushkin's The Captain's Daughter...