" By evening, "Beasts and scimitars guard the Palace." Two chained Bengal tigers and a giant ape were positioned at the entrance gates with guards.In the middle of the night ("when night reaches its noon"), the Thief activated his magic rope to climb o the top of the wall to initiate a break-in.The wealthy, self-made, hard-working, successful auto tycoon and manufacturer Samuel Dodsworth (Oscar-nominated Walter Huston) has his back to he camera, as he looks out over his sold factory."]Now, I""m sure there""s some of you here today who hink of us as such.And I should like to ask anyone who has called us well-meaning amateurs to stand up by his chair and tell me just why a well-meaning amateur is any less reliable than a well-meaning professional at a moment like this.Its documentary authenticity vividly re-creates a dark, frightening period during World War II, when Jews in Nazi-occupied Krakow were first dispossessed of their businesses and homes, then placed in ghettos and forced labor camps in Plaszow, and finally resettled in concentration camps for execution.