Word: walbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to refute some popular German lies about British mistreatment of Boer prisoners. A café quarrel leads to a duel, thanks to which young Candy 1) gets the wound which causes him to raise his Blimpish mustache, 2) makes a lifelong friend of his unwilling opponent (Anton Walbrook), 3) loses, to this Prussian officer, a charming English girl (Deborah Kerr) whom he has shyly begun to love...
...Church of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, whose "columns, arches, spandrils and dome follow each other with the logic of a Euclidian theorem." Wren's great transept is buried in wreckage, and there is a jagged rip in the resetted dome...
...Artist's Model," Anton Walbrook is an artist "famous for his nudes." Equally famous as a lover in circa 1900 Vienna, he has much trouble leaving one woman, protecting the reputation of a second, and winning the hand of a third. His "love of convenience" with the latter, an unsophisticated girl, turns into the real thing, to the chagrin of his ex-pash. She schemes to break up the affair, and finding that be still won't come back to her, finally plugs him with a small roscoe, containing two cigarettes and one bullet. Things finally get straightened...
Because the hero (Anton Walbrook) is a famed Polish pianist, Suicide Squadron resounds with melody. Its background score, composed by Richard Addinsel, is alone worth the price of admission. The picture follows Patriot Walbrook from gutted Warsaw to the U.S., underscores his marriage to a pretty U.S. heiress (Sally Gray) and her misbegotten attempt to keep him from flying with the remnants of his Polish squadron, reassembled in England...
This gantlet-run through the wilderness is the thread on which the picture's propa ganda pearls are strung. Best of them is a notable performance by Anton Walbrook as head of a Hutterite sect, of Germanic origin, who practice a kind of Christian communism in Canada's vast wheatlands. To Lieut. Portman's guttural plea that the Hutterites join their Nazi brothers in the war for Nordic supremacy, the leader replies: "Most of us are Germans, but we are not your brothers...