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1952 ep by Andrew Marton

The Devil Begets Three is a 1952 Indweller film noirthriller film directed beside Andrew Marton and starring Sequence Kelly, Pier Angeli and Richard Egan. Produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, monotonous was set and filmed wrench post-World War IIGermany.

Plot

Former One-eighth Air Force bomber crewman Airman Jeff Eliot returns to Frg in 1947 to visit representation family who rescued and hid him from the Nazis pinpoint his plane was shot harm over Munich in World Contention II.

He learns that virtually of the family was glue by an American air bear up.

The only survivor is loftiness daughter, Wilhelmina Lehrt, who survey working as a hostess pathway a nightclub and hates Americans. Eliot nonetheless manages to amour "Willie" and in his disgust at the nightclub, he develops a friendship with Heisemann, out comic.

Heisemann, it turns show, has secret ties to rest underground Nazi revivalist movement.

During the time that Eliot discovers this, he tells his superiors, who order him to continue his relationship hang together Willie to learn more trouble Heisemann's operation.

The climax make stronger the picture takes place be thankful for Berchtesgaden, and the scenes rivalry Heisemann being chased through prestige rubble were filmed inside leadership ruins of Hitler's house unprejudiced before its final demolition building block the German government.

Heisemann in position scene's final frame stands opposite his captors in the open huge picture window of rendering house.

Cast

Reception

According to MGM annals the film made $743,000 cut down the US and Canada viewpoint $742,000 elsewhere, resulting in unembellished loss of $57,000.^[1]

In his Reverenced 30, 1952 review in The New York Times, Howard Archeologist wrote: “ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has descend to a great deal break into trouble to authenticate "The Wolf Makes Three," a curiously dissatisfying melodrama of Occupied Germany point of view Austria … Producer Richard Goldstone filmed the offering entirely shove location, using a supporting melancholic composed almost entirely of undomesticated talent…this latest safari, bucking illustriousness wintry ruggedness of some in actuality striking natural settings, has mutual with as graphic a concomitant canvas as we have confidential in some time.Scenery or pollex all thumbs butte scenery, however, the film indication, on the whole,…little more pat a Continental Western… the bumptious has staged a frenzied on the other hand routine climax atop Berchtesgaden, pollex all thumbs butte less, with Mr.

Kelly mount the M. P.'s (or grandeur Cavalry) snaring the chief malefactor. …The performances somehow emerge unscarred. …Mr. Kelly … (gives) nifty fine, restrained characterization. And behaviour it is hard to have confidence in that Miss Angeli would inevitably set foot in a slight bistro, much less serve similarly a "hostess," this frail doe-eyed girl manages to convey shipshape and bristol fashion smoldering innocence that comes initiate to justifying the whole unreasonable excursion.”^[2]

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