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Joe Mankiewicz!
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Has the photographer put his hand across the lens to cover up her naked boobies??!!
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A traitor has been spotted. And his hand is no different from the others.
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Favorite lines from FIVE FINGERS, uttered by Mlle. Danielle Darrieux:
When asked why she left her home in Warsaw, she replies, "Bombs were falling. I was in the way."
When greeting a man she knows is a Nazi spy, but has been introduced to her as a "Swiss businessman," she comments: "How charmingly you Swiss click your heels. An old Swiss custom?"
(The Nazi, by the way, was played by Herbert Berghof, who later appeared as Ptolemy's tutor in Manckiewicz's CLEOPATRA, but was much better known as a master acting teacher, with Uta Hagen, in New York. They founded the HB Studio, attracting many acting students.)
(I wish the songs often playing in the background during Darrieux's scenes could have been issued on CD. They sound as if they're sung by in the style of Edith Piaf, and one of them has French lyrics with the music of what a couple of years later became the Main Title of DESIREE, attributed to Alfred Newman. I read at one point that all the song recordings have been lost. Pity...)
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Interesting bits and bobs there Johnbee. Will have to give the film a spotter's viewing. My conclusion from it has always been that what is seriously 'bent' does not lie flat.
The scene in which Berghof is unhappy on being relegated to the wrong side of the line after judgement from Caesar - and the resultant long look upon the ptolemaic visage - comes off as unintentionally funny. But then again, maybe it was supposed to be funny?
Berghof's character Theodotos in CLEOPATRA is supposed to be little more than pompous conniver, which is what the actual historical man probably was. In the "Restored CLEOPATRA," which I found online, he has a few more scenes, as well as a shot of how he was going to be shown to have died. (This site is amazing, with multiple quotes from the script, with lots of extended and deleted scenes, as well as both color and black&white photos of them. Fascinating.)
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