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Director:
Sam Newfield
Writers:
Fred Myton (screenplay)
Shepard Traube (story)
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Release Date:
8 October 1939 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | War more
Tagline:
WRITTEN WITH THE HEART'S BLOOD OF INNOCENT PEOPLE - UNCENSORED more
Plot:
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Early Propaganda more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Roland Drew ... Hans Memling
Steffi Duna ... Elsa Memling
Greta Granstedt ... Anna Wahl

Alan Ladd ... Karl Bach (as Allan Ladd)
Lucien Prival ... Sachs
Vernon Dent ... Lustig (beer garden bartender)
John Ellis ... Gustav Schultz
George Rosener ... Wunderlich
Bodil Rosing ... Frau Kohler
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski ... Storm Trooper Albert Stalhelm (as Hans von Twardowski)
Willy Kaufman ... Herr Kohler (as Willie Kaufman)
Hans Joby ... Kruger (as John Peters)
Frederick Giermann ... Father Pommer
Crane Whitley ... Klee (as Clem Wilenchick)
Henry Zynda ... Erlich (as Henry von Zynda)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Beasts of Berlin (USA) (working title)
Goose Step (USA) (working title)
Hell's Devils (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
87 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Approved

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Trivia:
Producer Ben Judell bet the farm on this film. His desire for sensationalism to generate profits blew up in his face. He spent 1939 organizing Producer's Distributing Corporation (what would be a precursor to a Judell-less PRC) around this film, it's first release, but thanks to various pro-German censorship boards, especially in big markets, he was unable to get it inside critically important theaters. Unable to generate cash flow from this film, his dream to create a new independent studio died and creditors forced him out. more

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10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
Early Propaganda, 6 November 2003
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Author: boblipton from New York City

Although there had been anti-Nazi propaganda films released before this, all the way back to LITTLE MAN WHAT NOW, this set new records for anti-Nazi propaganda, so much so that it was banned in New York and recut.

How is it as a movie? Well, it's a PRC production, which means that it's done on the cheap and lacks any signs of subtlety. It's of interest these days as an early example of propaganda and an early credited role for Alan Ladd.

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