Word: schelle
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...officer, Commandant Hohensee (Marius Goring) is made to say things like, "What we share--our music, our talks--has nothing to do with the war." This may be so, but he would not say it, and the girl would not reply, "But you are a German." Even though Maria Schell, as the daughter, is a lovely woman, it is hard to listen to the words she has been given. The "minor key" in which the movie is set seems more like a series of uneasy moments where the characters are made to make their own situations explicit...
...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate chorale on the themes of sin and salvation, is rearranged into something more like Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Trevor Howard and Maria Schell are superb as the lovers (TIME...
...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate chorale on the themes of sin and salvation, is rearranged into something more like Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Trevor Howard and Maria Schell are superb as the lovers (TIME...
...Scobie with a degree of reserve that would seem almost painful if it were not the only way the role could be done. His understanding of a man whose code of justice and firm Catholicism meet a situation in which they seem useless, is evident throughout the film. Maria Schell, as the Austrian refugee girl with whom Scobie falls in love while his wife is on vacation, manages superbly to make her character sympathetic and pitiful without a touch of the maudlin. And Elizabeth Allen's performance presents Louise Scobie in terms so plausible that it is impossible to condemn...
...Heart of the Matter. Graham Greene's novel, a passionate chorale on the themes of sin and salvation, is re-arranged into something more like Mad Dogs and Englishmen; Trevor Howard and Maria Schell are superb as the lovers (TIME...