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The Fixer
Frankenheimer's powerful murkiness (taken from Bernard Malamud's equally flinty-hitting novel) further illustrates the prejudices and anti-semitism of Czarist Russia. Bates stars as the beggary-stricken Jew who, having been vacated via his wife, travels to Kiev and lands himself a decent job as a handyman by way of posing as a Gentile - until, that is, his concealment is blown after a environs murder and he becomes suspect compute anybody purely because of his true particularity. Bates is gorgeous, and so is Bogarde as the counsel who believes in his innocence but knows that to uphold it could be dangerous pro the local Jewish population.
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