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| Margin for Error | 
 enlarge | Actors: Milton Berle, Otto Preminger, Carl Esmond
Studio: Oregon
Category: DVD
Buy New: $17.88
New (2) from $17.88
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 155080
Format: Import, Black & White, Full Screen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 74
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
UPC: 789844612036
EAN: 0789844612036
ASIN: B0016KTG1M
Theatrical Release Date: 1943
Publication Date: 2008
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Product Description
It is a toss-up as to who is most displeased when Patrolman Moe Finkelstein (Milton Berle) is given the duty of guarding the German consulate ran by Karl Baumer (Otto Preminger); neither Moe nor Baumer are too happy with this turn of events. Moe, however, quickly becomes fiends with the other residents of the consulate: Sophie Baumer (Joan Bennett), the consul's wife; the secretary Baron Max Von Alvenstor (Carl Esmond); and a pretty maid named Freida (Poldi Dur as Poldy Dur.)Moe senses an underlying tension that is not entirely accounted for by the gathering clouds of war. The gambling-loving Baumer has lost a large sum of money belonging to the German government, Sophie has learned to hate her husband and what he stands for and represents, and Baron Max has fallen in love with her. Max confronts Baumer with the discrepancy in the consulate's funds, and Baumer threatens to inform Berlin that one of Max's grandparents was not "Aryan." The arrival of a group of Nazi saboteurs (Ted North, Elmer Jack Semple and J. Norton Dunn) and the insistence they be given the funds to finance their project stirs consulate affairs even further.
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OTTO PREMINGER, OPUS 5 May 4, 2008
*** 1943. MARGIN FOR ERROR was based on Clare Boothe Luce's Margin for Error (A Satirical Melodrama and directed by Otto Preminger. NYC. The German ambassador, played by Preminger himself, is stealing money from the Berlin administration. He's also hated by his wife whose father is prisoner in a concentration camp in Europe. The policeman in charge of the ambassador's protection will have to solve a murder at the embassy the night of a radio broadcasted speech of the Fuehrer. The film presents an interesting mix of comic scenes, brought by Milton Berle, and war thriller scenes with well documented details. A curiosity.
In addition to the present edition, you can find a zone 2 DVD released by the BFI (British Film Institute) at amazon.co.uk or another zone 2 DVD released by Columbia Classics at amazon.fr.
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