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...might have been patterned after Director Erich Von Stroheim. In appearance Von Furst and Von Stroheim are identical, for Von Stroheim plays the role, with obvious relish. Before assuring his actors that they are addle-headed and incompetent, he removes his checked coat, folds it carefully and throws it on the ground. He twists his leading lady's wrists when he suspects her of liking one of his stunt flyers and then rubs corrosive acid on the control wires of that pilot's plane. At this point, the esprit de corps of the stunt flyers*?three pilots who belonged...
...young David Selznick became production head of RKO-Radio and RKO-Pathe. It will be to the advantage of all concerned if the picture is typical of forthcoming RKO products. Good shot: a group of assistant directors, script writers, prop boys and cameramen waiting to start work, with Von Stroheim standing above them, on a pedestal beside the camera, bawling orders...
Metropolitan: "Three Faces East". Constance Bennett and Eric von Stroheim doing their...
Three Faces East (Warner). "Three Faces East" is the password of German spies operating in England, who answer when they hear it "Forward and Back." At the root of it all is the master spy, Erich Von Stroheim, whose allegiance to his Vaterland is not adulterated when the King of the Belgians decorates him for valor. The story is highly theatrical but, in view of what is known of the actualities of international espionage during the War, not excessively romanticized. It is good entertainment, smoothly built and wonderfully acted by Von Stroheim and Constance Bennett who make it convincing...
...Hollywood in 1914, Erich von Stroheim was the symbolic Hun officer whom people at that time would pay to hate. It was rumored that he came of a noble Austrian family. His knowledge of European military technique and court etiquette seemed to bear out his claim that he had graduated from the Imperial Military Academy. During years of penury in the U. S. he had been a flypaper salesman, riding master, lifeguard, section hand, bundle wrapper, and forest ranger. When Hun villains were no longer in demand he sold Carl Laemmle the idea for a picture-The Pinnacle. Laemmle changed...