Word: veidt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Escape (Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Nazimova, Conrad Veidt, Blanche Yurka, Albert Basserman; TIME...
...also indicates the effect war has had on Britain's supply of young leading men. When the story opens on a Danish freighter captained by scowling Conrad Veidt, his usually villainous demesne has been transformed into the habitat of rugged Scandinavians. After his ship is interned in a British port, and he courts mysterious but pretty Valerie Hobson during a blackout, it begins to appear that Veidt may be on the Right Side for once. When they both were captured and held by German spies, he is obviously all there is left a hero...
Escape (Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Nazimova, Conrad Veidt, Blanche Yurka, Albert Basserman; TIME, Nov.18...
Escape is also a powerful true bill against Naziism's ruthlessness. The villain of the story, rather than any individual, is the system. Its personification is in the machinelike personality of a Prussian general (Conrad Veidt), the helplessness of a sympathetic Nazi doctor (Philip Dorn...
...towering genie, flies over the top of the world, blows up the Grand Canyon and brings love to the lives of slim, handsome Ahmad (John Justin, now a pilot with the R. A. F.) and the buxom, slant-eyed Princess (June Duprez). The sinister forces are led by Conrad Veidt, who conjures up more dire magic and dirty treachery than the screen has seen since Dracula...