-Caveat Lector- >>>This is a movie about C Boyer as a Spanish agent during the Spanish Civil War who travels to England on "business". During one scene when he goes to meet his contact (Lorre) at a language school, there is an interesting use of phraseology. The owner of the school tells Boyer that he has to do all of his own typing because his secretary is too nearsighted (although she's in the foyer knitting). The owner then mentions that the reason for the new language has something to do with the "new world order". A<>E<>R
>From http://www.themave.com/Boyer/ConfAgent.htm }}}>Begin Confidential Agent (1945) was a curiosity of casting that Warner Bros deemed appropriate at the time. Their hot new property, 20-yr-old Lauren Bacall, was riding high on the accolades for her first film, To Have and Have Not; she had also completed the yet-to-be-released The Big Sleep, both costarring her future husband Humphrey Bogart. Warners was in a big rush to try her opposite another major male star, and Boyer was chosen as the weary anti-fascist of Graham Greene's novel. This turned out to be a miscalculation, an almost fatal one for the budding career of Ms. Bacall. She was clearly out of her element as the young "Englishwoman", and no one knew it better than she. The critics who had fallen all over themselves in praise of her first movie did a quite vicious about-face. Bacall would later say, "They chopped me to pieces and I hated them all, but they were right...I had no guidance whatever in Confidential Agent." The guidance that wasn't given should have come from director Herman Shumlin; Agent was his second and last film, and he departed Hollywood having "showed little evidence that he'd learned anything about the medium" (Pauline Kael). The story follows Boyer's character, a special agent in the Spanish Civil War, as he attempts to complete his "confidential" mission in England. He meets up with one shady character after another (some very imposing character actors here: Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, Katina Paxinou, George Coulouris), and is harassed from the moment he steps off the boat. He's beaten up several times, shot at more than once, and robbed -- most of which happens before he even reaches his hotel room! And it's practically all downhill for him after that, until the rocky "happy ending." A rare pleasant moment If anything, this film proves that it was impossible for Charles Boyer to give a bad performance; his disillusioned agent is the only constant that holds this murky melodrama somewhat together. End<{{{ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forwarded as information only; no automatic endorsement + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe simply because it has been handed down for many generations. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is written in Holy Scriptures. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of Teachers, elders or wise men. Believe only after careful observation and analysis, when you find that it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all. Then accept it and live up to it." The Buddha on Belief, from the Kalama Sutta + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --- Ernest Hemingway <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
