Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 15, 1930

Three Faces East (Warner). "Three Faces East" is the password of German spies operating in England, who answer when they hear it "Forward and Back." At the root of it all is the master spy, Erich Von Stroheim, whose allegiance to his Vaterland is not adulterated when the King of the Belgians decorates him for valor. The story is highly theatrical but, in view of what is known of the actualities of international espionage during the War, not excessively romanticized. It is good entertainment, smoothly built and wonderfully acted by Von Stroheim and...

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