richardchatten
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A cross between 'Lost Holiday' and 'The Steel Trap' in which Charles Victor for the first and final time gets top billing in the title role as a lowly bank clerk who arrives at a hotel with a suitcase filled with his employers' money and lies low in a hotel, where he has a transformative effect on the other guests.
For his second film to showcase a little man attempting to set the world to rights Richard Attenborough turned his attention from Mahatma Gandhi to Charlie Chaplin.
As this film makes it abundantly clear despite his eminence in the field of silent cinema Chaplin himself was plainly in love with the sound of his voice. And we certainly hear a lot of in this film.
As this film makes it abundantly clear despite his eminence in the field of silent cinema Chaplin himself was plainly in love with the sound of his voice. And we certainly hear a lot of in this film.
Hitchcock once stated that "people don't go to the police because it's DULL". Similarly many viewers who otherwise would be exasperated at Joel McCrea's disinclination to contact the authorities when gangster John Garland is putting the hit on him find out exactly what happens when he calls in the police (SLIGHT SPOILER COMING:): he ends up in court where a judge impatiently dismisses his case; while flanked by his lawyer Garfield smugly stretches out like a cat that's got the cream.
And so its back to square one.
And so its back to square one.
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