CIVIC THEATRE
FINALLY TO-NIGHT What is unquestionably the greatest cast of characters in the history of the world tQ-day, not to mention the history of motion pictures, is found in Warner Bros.' "Mission to Moseow," based upon the best-sell-ing book by former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. Truly, the world 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. Spurning mere impersonations of sueii notables, Warner Bros. undertook the tremendous, painstaking task of duplicating them.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 March 1946, Page 2
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