Word: stroheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinema Director Billy Wilder reported a bit of dialogue between himself and veteran cinemactor Erich ("The Man You Love to Hate") von Stroheim. Said Wilder: "It is an honor to direct you. You were ten years ahead of your time." Responded Von Stroheim: "No, 20 years...
...proceeds from tonight's showing of "Grand illusion," the pre-war French film with Eric Von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, will be donated to the College DP student fund by the Liberal Union. Showings of the film, which has English sub-titles, will be at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in Fogg Museum...
...this age of Hollywood blood-and-thunder war movies, all of which preach some sort of a hackneyed message, there is nothing more refreshing than to see a brilliant war film like the twelve year-old "Grand Illusion." Starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin, this old-French epic concerns the fate of a group of French prisoners in Germany during the first World...
...were comparatively satisfactory. Gino Cervi as Mozart looked and acted the abstract conception of the composer, and Luigi Pavese as his father was adequately Deutsch. Italian actresses, unfortunately, do not seem to fill the bill of love interest: Conchita Montenegro as Aloysia would be enough to frighten Eric von Stroheim...
...individual portrayals are good, but the characters, in the few moments devoted to each one, are standard types: the patriots are staunch, tight-lipped, and unmoved, the German commander a thicknecked, bullet-headed remnant of the days of Von Stroheim's Junkers. The photography is excellent, but in the precarious position of being either documentary or drama or both, "Jericho" achieves at best an uncertain effect...