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  • Even so, the film's greatest asset is unarguably Jean Arthur, who provides most of the laughs as the high-strung schoolteacher who becomes entangled with both Leopold and Lightcap, desperately trying to hide the escapee's secret from the professor as they all live uneasily under the same roof.

    The Talk of the Town Ed Howard 2008

  • Her increasingly outlandish attempts to hide Leopold and then, when he's relatively out in the open as the gardener, to keep his secret, inspire some great comic lunacy, like the scene where she squeals and hurls an egg onto a newspaper photo of Leopold's face, letting the yolk come to rest neatly right beneath the escapee's hat.

    The Talk of the Town Ed Howard 2008

  • Daves balances this first-person storytelling with shots where the escapee's face is obscured by shadows, like a wonderful sequence during a cab ride where the contours of Bogart's face are obvious even while his features are hidden from view.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • That's just one of the escapee's from our little facility here in Alberta, Canada.

    Bryan Singer's Valkyrie Review - This Year's Best WWII Film « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Even so, the film's greatest asset is unarguably Jean Arthur, who provides most of the laughs as the high-strung schoolteacher who becomes entangled with both Leopold and Lightcap, desperately trying to hide the escapee's secret from the professor as they all live uneasily under the same roof.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • Her increasingly outlandish attempts to hide Leopold and then, when he's relatively out in the open as the gardener, to keep his secret, inspire some great comic lunacy, like the scene where she squeals and hurls an egg onto a newspaper photo of Leopold's face, letting the yolk come to rest neatly right beneath the escapee's hat.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • Daves balances this first-person storytelling with shots where the escapee's face is obscured by shadows, like a wonderful sequence during a cab ride where the contours of Bogart's face are obvious even while his features are hidden from view.

    Dark Passage Ed Howard 2008

  • Now, two were caught the next day at the sister of one of these escapee's house.

    CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2005 2005

  • After the New Hampshire primaries, Robert Dole had to go back to trudge his stony path, denied the joys of the victor but permitted the escapee's sigh of relief.

    The Republican Implosion Kempton, Murray 1996

  • The Nazis knew that an escapee's hair would grow back, and that the partisans would make new documents for them.

    The Guardian World News Homa Khaleeli 2011

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