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tells her to run, another to lie down. She does the latter and survives the explosion, and is helped to the shelter in a daze. As she recovers, she is convinced that her husband's "Magic Eye" charm has protected her. She asks a friend what she would do if she were totally invulnerable. Looking up to
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but, despite the best efforts of its star, the contrived scenario of a Hitler assassination was described as doomed by a "screenplay (that) was quintessential tommyrot, undiluted by even the smallest amount of intelligence or common sense." Only
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histrionic abilities." A more recent critique notes, "The movie is indeed charming and amusing; at least, it is for the length of time that it plays its story for silly comedy. Unfortunately, but not unexpectedly, the movie starts to take itself seriously at the half-way mark ..." Film critic
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Inside Hitler's private office, Ella rehearses what she will say to him, but
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cleaning woman. She shares a train compartment with German
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the street being bombed, her friend replies that she would go to
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Grete. Franz is able to have Greta released, but it is actually a ploy by
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