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...Three, Billy Wilder's cold-war farce, Horst Bucholz was held captive by ruthless commissars intent on prying secret information out of him. He resisted, at least initially. Then the villains immured him in a room with a phonograph that kept playing over and over It Was an Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. His will frayed, his sanity shot, Bucholz broke...
...clerks read to him after the death of his wife. "Do we have to improve our minds today? Can't we have a little murder" he pleaded with Hiss one day. The exhibit contains Holmes' diary listing every book he ever read: ironically, the last entry in Thornton wilder's Heaven's My Destination...
...Last of Shella. This week, though, looks terrific. Made by Carol Read in 1949, The Third Man is one of the most exciting movies ever made. Tonight is von Sternberg's 1936 version of Crime and Punishment with none other than Peter Lorre as Raskoinlloov, Tomorrow begins Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Orson Welles' The Stranger, with Edward G. Robinson as a Nazi war criminal hiding out in America...
...Gene Wilder, who co-wrote the screenplay, plays the wild-eyed, wild-haired grandson of the Baron von Frankenstein in a brilliant, highly personal take-off on the familiar character of the mad genius. He begins the movie as an American neurosurgeon frantically embarrassed by his ancestor's antiscientific shenanigans. Forced to journey to Transylvania to receive the Baron's will, he discovers the ancient laboratory and is seduced by his grandfather's dreams--providing the set-up for a spoof of every major scene in the original film, interrupted by the tangents of Brooks's imagination and concluded...
...Anderson's role in Rebecca as the forbidding keeper of the Baron's castle. Young Frankenstein stalks about with the mad intensity and even the cap and cloak of Sherlock Holmes (whose film image dates from the 1930s). "Chattanooga Choo-choo," a popular song of the '30s, resurfaces when Wilder leans out of the train window on arrival and asks, "Is this Transylvania Station?" and is answered by other lines from the same song, "Yes, this is Track 29. Would you like a shoe shine?" The movie is haunted by old ghosts--even Adolf Hitler reappears with a wooden...