Word: tartu
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...Tartu (Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson; TIME, Sept...
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...remarkably short time Tartu: 1) locates key friends and key foes, 2) gets the job at the gas works, 3) does a broken-field run through the intricate perils which arise from the fact that he is suspected by friend & foe alike, 4) completes his explosive assignment in the hotfooted course of one of those thrilling, dreamlike chases in which pursuers stick out their chins for the hero, great iron doors delay their closing just long enough for him to skin through, and a car and plane synchronize a getaway as happy, and unlikely, as a chain letter that really...
...undergrounders, and by pacing as shrewdly varied as that of a roller coaster. Miss Hobson, besides being a sensible actress, is one cinemactress who can really be described as beautiful. As the gigolesque Iron Guardist, rococo Robert Donat turns in one of the best performances of his career. All Tartu needs, to be a classic of its kind, is the sort of razor-edged melodramatic and psychological inventiveness which belongs to Alfred Hitchcock in strict monopoly and has been conferred on a very few of his compatriots, in very small doses...