APPOINTMENT IN BERLIN
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SSIGNMENT IN BRITTANY, Reunion in Paris, "Mission to Moscow-and now Appointment in Berlin. How we picturegoers do get around
and live dangerously these days, don’t we? This new Hollywood saga of embattled democracy shows, among many other curiosities, the effect of Munich on Wing-Commander Keith Wilson (George Sanders), who is so much spoiling for a fight that he goes out and paints swastikas on the Nelson Monument, as a symbol of Britain’s shame. Thus, by the fiendishly subtle device of getting himself kicked out of the R.A.F. in disgrace, he inveigles himself into a job. as_offsider to Lord Haw-Haw in Berlin and so contrives to broadcast Vital Information in code to our listening secret service. Finally, with the Gestapo on his heels and a beautiful but rather unpatriotic German heroine ‘by his side, he pinches a plane and wins a posthumous V.C. by blowing’ himself .and-a fuel dump up, thereby revealing. to the R.A.F. the location, of : Hitler’s: invasion fleet. : Picturegoers who take the view that the war is»rather too serious to be treated as a fairy-tale will have blown up about an hour earlier.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 258, 2 June 1944, Page 29
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189APPOINTMENT IN BERLIN New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 258, 2 June 1944, Page 29
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