Comedian's Career 26
Years with Top Billing Charles Spencer Chaplin, who takes such long rests between his comedies that this rising generation has much difficulty in identifying him as a movie personality, is nevertheless the player with the longest consecutive starring record in Hollywood.
"The Dictator," which Chaplin plans to bring forth in a couple of months, marks 26 years of over-title billing for the funny little man who hopes to make totalitarian nations and their leaders look ridiculous in his new comedy.
Shortest-lived star on Hollywood's charts is Jone Bryan. Two weeks after Miss Bryan was officially a Nazi, Where is gentle Father Pommer preaching Christianity in a pagan land. There is a young storm trooper who stays in the party to help his friends and has to help flog and insult them when eventually they come under the suspicion of the Gestapo land are put under "protective arrest."
Senseless, sadistic cruelty runs through the entire film.
The priest has his robes torn off him, his rosary trampled under foot. The fat old beer-garden proprietor dies under torture. Their storm trooper colleague gives himself away and is shot in the back.
Hans escape to a neutral country. His baby is not born a Nazi after all. He feels he is deserting his friends. But his wife tells him he can do mure to help them outside Germany.
Hence this film, The cast are mostly fugitives from Nazidom and ex-members of the Gestapo.
Ste Duna and Roland Drew play the leading parts.
It is a darkly grim, sincerely made picture. I think you should see it. Remember it as American (not British), and anything more anti-Nazi would be difficult to imagine.
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