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Five Fingers (20th Century-Fox) injects the long arm of Hollywood coincidence into the super-melodramatic, real-life story of World War II Spy Ulysses Diello, Albanian valet of the British Ambassador to Turkey. During 1944, Diello photographed and sold to the Nazis such top-secret documents from the British embassy in Ankara as the minutes of the Moscow, Cairo and Teheran conferences, and plans for Operation Overlord (the Normandy invasion). Ironically, the Nazis made no use of the information for fear that Diello, who operated with the code name "Cicero," was a British plant. Most...
James Mason, with his polished playing of the poker-faced valet, helps iron out some of the dialogue wrinkles in this cloak & dagger drama. Also lending a bit of credulity to the proceedings: Oscar Karlweis as Moyzisch and John Wengraf as his boss, Ambassador Franz von Papen...
...between Bath and London, in one city drinking the waters, in the other, the bitter tea of a lonely old age. His reason had withered his faith in God and realism had whittled his faith in man, but nothing ever weakened his faith in manners. On his deathbed, his valet announced that a friend, Solomon Dayrolles, had come to see him. "Give Dayrolles a chair," croaked Chesterfield, and died...
...Adler's blonde wife (Patricia Knight) and conveniently committed Adler to prison. Hitler failed to reckon with a vengeful zeal and a talent for impersonation that enabled Adler to move painstakingly up the Nazi social ladder in the successive roles of the prison warden, Hitler's valet, and finally the Führer himself...
...lived there ever since, gives some of the answers in an admirable, well-documented biography. Not only has Frischauer pondered Goering's career from womb to ash can; he has also won the confidence of such key figures as Goering's widow, his valet and some of his military aides. The result is popular biography at its best...