THE MAGIC FACE
(Columbia) HERE have been. many occasions ‘when I have seen indifferent films for want of anything better to look at, but it was simply crass carelessness (and House Full notices) that landed me with The Magic Face on the Saturday after Anzac Day. This fantastic melodrama describes how a wronged husband (by a lucky chance’ he was also a stage impersonator) managed to murder Hitler in 1940, stepped into the Fuehrer’s jackboots while they were still warm, and by pertinaciously making all the wrong military’ decisions succeeded, by 1945, in bringing the entire Third Reich down about his ears. Luther Adler, as Janus the Great, provides a noteworthy impersonation of Luther Adler impersonating Hitler, but the most remarkable contribution to the film is that of William L. Shirer, as narrator and apologist for the story. His Berlin Diary is now demoted to the bottom of my bookcase.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 15
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150THE MAGIC FACE New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 15
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