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...Allen Schmidt, Associate Director, Laboratory for Computer Graphics
...between the stature of its hero and the magnitude of his "education"). "The Occupied Zone" was all surface, and the surface was very exciting. This portion of the play, while psychologically the least probing, was artistically the most inventive. The Hero becomes ensnared in the kinky problems of Mrs. Schmidt-Gordon, a twice-widowed owner of a rooming house. Mrs. Schmidt-Gordon murders, by mistake, her daughter Dulcy (Joan Tolentino). She had intended to decapitate her Cinderella-like daughter Gloria, played with winsome agility by June Gable, so that Dulcy could begin recruiting sexual partners. Such...
...evokes the 1920's. To suggest a chase within the house, the director achieves an even more perfect fusion of film and stage action. As the real Soldier and Gloria gape from one open window, the other window shutter springs open, on film, and we see the ominous Mrs. Schmidt-Gordon seeking her prey...
Alice Drummond as Mrs. Schmidt-Gordon was articulate, facially expressive, really perfect in the only well-written acting slot in the whole play. She talks glibly about a distant Golden Age when she was young, the air rich with humidity, and her house a more welcome prison. From her current vantage point, she's more like a burlesqued version of Mother Courage, hoarding her mementos, fearing sexual orgies going on in a locked-off room, generally despairing over "these days when dry mouth must kiss dry mouth." When she sinks in quicksand, her passing is no less...
Lili Smith, London's favorite dance-hall entertainer, is the seductive idol of the British soldiers on leave from World War I. Secretly, she is a German spy named Schmidt. She flirts across the movie screen in sheer tights and ruffles, a rose between her teeth, gaiety masking her embittered spirit. The role seems precisely tailored for Dietrich. Instead it will be played by Mary Poppins. Julie Andrews has in fact gone the English dance-hall route before-and flopped miserably-in one of Hollywood's most expensive bombs. a multimillion-dollar loser called Star. On looks, anyway...