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Worst Propaganda movie?
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Re: Runners Up-Worst propaganda Movies
One in the same film... that is William Bendix's character in "Wake Island". I don't think it is so bad.... it was conjecture... they didn't know the details of what had happened there at the time the film was made.. if I recall there is a disclaimer at the beginning stating that it is a fictionalized account. Great cast... even a very young Alan Hale, Jr. (Gilligan's "Skipper") as an artillery sight-setter. Directed by John Farrow (Mia's Dad). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035530/PF wrote: #3 1/2 "Wake Island"... #4 Was a movie about either Bataan or Corregidor... in which a US Marine is retiring on the very day the IJF attacks; he goes back to the colors and dies heroically in his dress uniform...
"Bataan" (1943) featured Robert Taylor, Lloyd Nolan and Desi Arnez (AiiiiYiiiiiYiiiiYiiiiiYiii... LUUUUUCCCCCYYYYYY!) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035664/
"Corregidor" (1943) was a fine "small" film with a cast of less-known actors, that focused on the Doctors and Nurses in the Military Hospital there. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035755/
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Yeah...even the Party hated "SA-Mann Brand".Neutral wrote:The worst German propaganda feature films I know are "SA-Mann Brand" (1933), "Kadetten" (1939) and "Kopf hoch Johannes" (1941)... The worst American ones are the animated shorts featuring Disney characters and others against Axis forces ...
Must be the different sense of humor between Yanks and Germans... we fnd those Disney things funny, quaint and cute.
What about "Hitlerjunge Quex"? All accounts I've read say it is an excellent film if one views it objectivly (ie: accepting the propaganda content and looking at it as cinema only)... that the imagery and cinematography is great, the acting excellent and the writing subtle, not "ham-fisted"... have you seen it? Comments?Neutral wrote: ... and we Germans find "SA Mann Brand" funny - although unintentionally
I think "Quex" is funny as well ... though it features an excellent performance by Heinrich George. The scene of Quex leaving the communist youth camp, wandering through the woods and stumbling upon the Hitler youth by the fire place is also very intense, and my girl-friend found the ending quite moving. So it depends on your point of view, I guess..
Quex is definitively more watcheable than Brand - though in any case Hans Westmar is my favourite one
Quex is definitively more watcheable than Brand - though in any case Hans Westmar is my favourite one
Another Nominie for worst Propaganda movies!
One is 1938 Alfred Hitchcock movie "The LAdy Vanishes" a silly comic book story format in which a young woman and a muscial man get nixed up with a "Sweet little old English Lady" who is a spy sho trasmits coded messages in folk songs! Add to that a fake nun who is english and a Mussolini type joke of a fascist policeman-who gets knocked out and tries to hold off English hostages with one bullet in his gun, a german spymaster who lets the train go to neutral country; a English pacifiist who tries to surender in a shootout but is shot and killed wondering why...although this film was made in 1938.. and is set in a fictional country...it could have just about the right "B-Movie" to cheer up the home crowd!!!! 
Still another nominie!!
It was a movie in which ends with a SS/SD man shoots his pistol at a pair of escaping man and woman who are on a mountian tram which brings them to freedom....I think the woman is mortally wounded from a pistol shot at a impossibly long distance from a Luger pistol!! Oddly the Nazi makes no attempt to stop and bring the tram back up????????????Was this "Night Train To Munich"??? or another movie in which a Young German Girl rebels against becoming a member of the German Girls equivilent of the "Hitler Youth" and gets set to a Labor/K-Z camp??? Sorry cant remember name of last movie..........!!!! These movies were even worse than "Lifeboat" "Wake Island" or "The Forty Ninth-Parrell"!!
Re: Worst Propaganda movie?
How about "First COmes Courage" 1943 ?
Re: Worst Propaganda movie?
10/14/2007 post I think that was "NIGHT TRAIN TO MUNICH".
HOw about Kimmich's movies "My Life for Ireland"??????????????????????
HOw about Kimmich's movies "My Life for Ireland"??????????????????????
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rommel42 wrote:"Titanic"(1943) It is about a fictional German officer on the ill-fated liner pleading the snobbish captain to slow down the ship because of icebergs. Well he doesn't slow it down and in the end, the German and a bunch of German passengers end up being the heroes.
This movie is a laugh-riot! Being interested in the Titanic since I was a wee one, I HAD to search for her on this forum and wanted other members to check the movie out. It actually was shown on TV a few years ago (I think AMC or maybe Turner Classic whatever)---the first time I had even heard of it.