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...next reel is all kinds of fun: a hilarious switch on the man-walks-dog routine, a kindergarten course in the divergence of species, and possibly even a sly political charade with special interest for those nations that are tied to a bear. When the pup leaps off in pursuit of a wood rat, the cub just sits there on his little bear behind and wonders vaguely what all the barking is about, so the rat gets away and the pup goes hungry. The bear on the other hand finds plenty to eat -berry bushes and beehives...
...Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds...
...hackle-raising reel or so, the good guys are whiplashed, stomped on and strapped to chairs in a steamy cell of the impregnable Szarhaza prison. Their efforts to fight off insanity from mind-obliterating drugs are compellingly chronicled. Their subsequent prison break is skillful skulduggery, handled in the finest tradition of cinema suspense. Director Phil (Hell to Eternity) Karlson and Star-Producer Widmark have managed to take a script that is awash in cliches, plunge it into an authentic setting, surround it with sound historical and technical data, and photograph it with an admirable tightness and edgy excitement...
...just seems to be longing wistfully-with the audience-for the fun that used to be. The script offers only an occasional chuckle. General: "Hurry up; General Eisenhower is waiting." Danny: "Well, tell him not to. I don't do him." When he is captured, Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails for Zwei). It's funny-but it seems to have been lobbed in because the script was getting just too dull for words...
This Kafkaotic little (15 minutes) fable, created by Raymond Polanski, a 19-year-old student at the Polish film school in Warsaw, mingles slapstick and horror with a screw-loose intensity seldom seen on screen since Emil Jannings went berserk in the last reel of The Blue Angel. What does it mean? Obviously nothing favorable to Poland's Communist society, but one guess is as good as another. One guess: in an evil world, virtue is an unbearable burden...