![]() ![]() "That takes nerves of steel, and soon enough becomes a full-time job." A "but" follows: "If, in your time here you, ah, stumble on something, something important, it wouldn't be a bad idea if you let me know about it." "You're not a spy," the officer tells him. Stahl prudently consults an American spymaster. We send out operatives, and then other people send out press releases.") (As Goebbels's people liked to say, "We don't send out press releases. But then he gets a taste of German commitment to the triumph of the Reich. And they want so little: come to Berlin, just to judge a festival of films about mountains. The Germans, knowing Stahl was born in Vienna, are interested in him. Mostly he played a warm man in a cold world." But neither was he Charles Boyer - he wasn't so sophisticated. ![]() He's no matinee idol: "He couldn't punch another man, he wasn't Clark Gable, and he couldn't fight a duel, he was not Errol Flynn. ![]() All of that suggests what awaits Fredric Stahl when he arrives in Paris to make a movie. ![]()
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