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Candlelight in Algeria (British Lion 20th Century-Fox) illuminates a dark corner of the invasion of North Africa. Its heroine (Carla Lehmann), a Kansas-born sculptress, hides a fugitive Englishman (James Mason) from the local Nazi chief (Walter Rilla). Later she snitches a small camera from the lair of a collaborationist nightclub singer (Enid Stamp-Taylor). A lot of people are interested in this camera, because it contains film which shows the location of the seaside house in which General Mark Clark and his colleagues are soon to rehearse signals for the invasion. Dapper Nazi Rilla and his henchmen energetically...
...handled with habitual British know-how, Candlelight is further enjoyable for its three leading performances. Canadian Carla Lehmann, with her prairie voice, is about twice as American as the average U.S. screen heroine. James Mason, an English matinee idol new to U.S. cinemaddicts, suggests a welterweight Clark Gable. Walter Rilla, once popular on the German stage and screen, is perhaps the most satisfying portrayer of suave continental menace since the late Conrad Veidt...
...main point was to calk the greatest chink in the South China blockade. In Shantung Province, one of the areas occupied by the invader in the first year of the war, the Japanese have in the past two months car ried on a campaign against Chinese guer rilla forces who had assisted in smuggling. Operations against the Chinese border from Burma seemed designed to consolidate Japanese positions on the flank that is most convenient for Allied reentry...