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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Devil's Envoys (Paulvé; Superfilm), which is based on the medieval romance Les Visiteurs du Soir, is a French film about a minstrel (Alain Cuny) and his mistress (Arletty) who travels disguised as his brother. One evening they turn up among the entertainers at a small French chateau. These unusually talented musicians are capable of magic, as well as music; they are emissaries of the Devil (Jules Berry). Their business in the world is to seduce immortal souls through the transient flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...Minerva; Superfilm) is an Italian-made movie which juxtaposes the tyrannies and passions of Puccini's opera, La Tosca, and those of the Nazi domination of Rome. The story: a famous tenor hides a Polish Jew and a wounded British agent from the SS. His sweetheart [Anna Magnani], a famous soprano, misunderstanding his secretiveness, inadvertently betrays him through her jealousy. While the SS closes in, the Italian lovers sonorously sweat out La Tosca's similar story on the stage of Rome's Royal Opera House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Mar. 10, 1947 | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

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