I'm doing research on this particular genre of 40's & 50's Hollywood anti-Nazi films and would highly apreciate it if people would post some known titles that fall within this genre. Bonus if the film is available on DVD.
Thanks!
Here's a very late reply for you: "The Mortal Storm" and "So Ends Our Night" are two movies very similar in style and content.
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Apologies for the tardiness of the response.
In addition to *The Mortal Storm* and *So Ends Our Night*, which someone else has mentioned, there are: *The Man I Married*, *Underground*, *Manhunt*, *Pastor Hall*, *Above Suspicion* and *Night Train*. There is also, of course, *The Great Dictator*.
I'm tardy as well...but two other excellent examples of the 1930's/40's anti-Nazi propaganda genre are films that feature, individually, two of the stars of "Escape" - Conrad Veidt and Bonita Granville. Respectively, they are "Nazi Agent" (1942) and "Hitler's Children" (1943).
They're actually quite good IMO as far as this genre goes. TCM has shown both.
Another great one is The Seventh Cross, with Spencer Tracy and Hume Cronyn. Like Escape, it shows how some people were afraid to help and some tooks risks to help.
Arise, My Love (one of my all-time faves) from 1940. Shows the early days of the war.
There is another film, The Adventures of Tartu (released in the US as Sabotage Agent,) with Robert Donat. Not a great film, but interesting because of it subject matter. Donat plays a spy who infiltrates a Nazi poison-gas factory (the poison-gas is presumably to be used for bombs in the film- I think we all know what the gas was actually used for.)
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A WW II movie with Errol Flynn comes to my mind: "Desperate Journey" about a group of GI's who had a crash landing in Nazi Germany and experience some of the harsh conditions under which the German population was living.
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