CIVIC THEATRE
TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW What is unquestionably the greatest cast of characters in the history of the world to-day, not to mention the history of motion pictures, is found in Warner Bros.' "Mission to Moscow," based upon the best-sell-ing book by former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Truly, the worid is its stage, and the world's great.est figures are its players. Men like Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Maxim Litvinov and many others, shaping the startling and exciting events that preceded the global war, were the fascinating material of the book, and they come startingly to life in the' gripping film story. The chief production difficulty encountered by the Warner Bros. studio in dramatising the great events which comprise the "plot" of "Mission to Moscow" lay in the fact that the characters involved are contemporaries whose likenesses, and in a few cases personal mannerisms are known to every newspaper reader in the country. Spuming mere impersonatioris of sucii notables, Warner Bros. undertook | the tremendous, painstaking task of duplicating them.
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Chronicle (Levin), 12 March 1946, Page 2
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