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This film version of Eric Ambler's A Coffin For Dimitrios goes in for rich, talky theatricality rather than realism. But on its own level it is lively entertainment, distinguished by some better-than-fair performances (Veterans Lorre and Greenstreet, wolfish Newcomer Zachary Scott and mousily appealing Steven Geray...
...take six meters of fabric to erect. . . . They fight to order 5,000 franc hats at the leading Parisian modistes and roll around the town in horse cabs at 500 francs a course, lest they be mobbed by indignant crowds in the subway. In poorer quarters, eyes have the wolfish glare that must have reflected the guillotine under that other terror...
...Each, essentially, is comparable to a U.S. Midwestern isolationist set against a Red background. The band's motto is the old Russian proverb: "S volkami zhit, po volchii zhit"-"He that lives among wolves must learn to howl." With the capitalist wolves, these men propose to talk the wolfish language of power politics-tough, unsentimental, strongarm...
Sabu, who returns to his native village and his true mother after his wolfish education is ended, learns how to run with the man pack in no time at all. Buldeo (Joseph Calleia), the hunter, sells him a "tooth" (a long-bladed knife), and he polishes off Shere Khan. But the hunter's lust for the treasure of a lost jungle city which Mowgli reveals to him sends the disgusted wolf-boy back to his animal friends-and leaves the door wide open for a sequel, if the box office warrants...
Before the Truman Committee, investigating defense contracts, appeared three mysterious and interesting characters. To the committee, they looked a little wolfish...