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Escape (Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Nazimova, Conrad Veidt, Blanche Yurka, Albert Basserman; TIME...
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...