Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

edwagreen Ridiculous film here. Dana Andrews was miscast in 1945's "State Fair," and is a victim of unbelievably bad writing and some poor taste exhibited in this very stupid film. Thank the Lord for Andrews that 1946's "The Best Years of Our Lives" allowed him to display his great acting talents.This film is ludicrous at best. The escape scene of the heroine's father becomes comedy at its worst. Sig Ruman and Andrews are literally caught with their pants down. Ruman's remark that Hitler needs a psychiatrist and that by the Nazis killing all the insane people, will leave Germany as a sane country is insensitive to the say the least. Hitler needed more than a psychiatrist. It is called a bullet between the eyes. Am sure we would have loads of volunteers to carry this out.The movie also brings out that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned-even a dedicated Nazi woman.Notice that the Nazi woman sent to spy on reporter Andrews is as Nazi as they come, but how she changes when it's determined that her father is part of the anti-Nazi spy ring. Unrealistic. Obedient Nazis were taught to turn in their own parents if necessary.

oldmovieman Ouch! This wildly implausible story finds Dana Andrews as an American radio correspondent broadcasting censored news back to America shortly before America's entry into WWII. Andrews, however, is getting secret information about military failures of the German army and covertly incorporating them into his newscasts. The secret info is then published in the American newspaper that has the code, much to the Germans embarrassment. The contrived plot has a Gestapo officer use his fiancée to cozy up to Andrews and learn the source of his information. She is almost immediately successful in solving the mystery (it was that easy?) and informing her fiancé. But the joke's on her when Andrews' source turns out to be her father and he's tortured and sent to an asylum for execution. Incredibly, the Gestapo doesn't execute or even arrest Andrews as a spy but lets him go about his business. Not to fear, Andrews saves the day. How? He just impersonates a Nazi psychiatrist (complete with colonel's uniform), visits the asylum, arranges the father's escape, and ships him to Switzerland. How does he solve the problem of the border crossing? Easy. He gives the father his passport, which he had altered by a friend so the 60 year old father would pass as Andrews. The plot gets far worse from here but it's too much too describe. As for the tone of the movie, the treatment of the Germans is so cartoonish and the dialogue so over the top that you'll cringe. Yes, this was a propaganda film but a little more subtlety would have gone a long way. There is, however, one reason to watch this horror: Virginia Gilmore as the Gestapo officer's fiancée. First, she is gorgeous. Second, she has the worst lisp of any leading lady I've ever seen on film. Every "this" becomes "thith." It's really amazing she got any roles at all.

Neil Doyle BERLIN CORRESPONDENT was one of many propaganda films that entertained World War II audiences in 1942. When it played the local theater houses in the New York area during the age of double features, BAMBI was on the top half of the bill with the DANA ANDREWS film second on the bill.It's got a really improbable storyline but if you can accept the fact that this is "just a movie" and made for propaganda escapist fare in the early '40s, it's well worth watching.Dana Andrews is excellent as an American reporter who risks his life so that his sweetheart and her professor father can escape the Nazis. By the time the story gets to the concentration camp scenes near the end, it has compiled a number of improbable twists and turns. Nevertheless, it's briskly paced, well acted and photographed in crisp B&W style that results in good entertainment. The story moves to a fast-moving climax when Dana's planned escape goes amok.Martin Kosleck makes the most of his Nazi role, the kind he played often in these wartime dramas, and Virginia Gilmore is pleasantly appealing in the leading femme role. Mona Maris seemed to specialize in playing bad girl spies in these kind of stories.Taut, tense and exciting, flawed only by some improbabilities in the script.

sol1218 **SPOILERS** It's late November 1941 and things haven't been going too well for the Nazis as of late. Their big offensives in both Russia and North Africa have stalled and Berlin is being bombed by what looks like German Stuka dive-bombers who must have gone some 500 miles off course from the Eastern Front to do it. American newspaper correspondent Bill Roberts, Dana Andrews,is giving his usual nightly news report from Berlin back to the USA, which has been heavily censored by the Gestapo,that somehow is telling his people back home whats really happening in the war. Bill is using coded words that the Gestapo can't pick up to give the info that the Gestapo want to prevent the world from knowing. Just where is Bill getting this very vital and secret information?Col. Karl Von Rau, Martin Kosleck, a top honcho in the German intelligence Service is having fits about this matter and is sending out agents to spy on Bill to find out who's giving him this top secret data. The agents that Von Rau sends out are about as effective as a water pistol is to stopping a five alarm fire. Getting his pretty intelligence analyst Karen Hauen, Virginia Gilmore, on Bill's tail she gets him off his guard, with Bill trying to impress her with his famous spaghetti sauce, at his hotel room. Karen finds out that Bill gets the important info from a stamp dealer in the city. It later turns out that this person is not a stamp dealer but a customer who also happens to be Karen's father Rudolph Hauen, Erwin Kaiser. Rudolf had just about had it with the Nazi regime and wants to do everything in his power to undermine it. With his daughter now working for German Intellengence Rudolf in the perfect spot to get top secret information about the German Armys victories and defeats and used that information to feed it to Bill Roberts and thus to the free world. But what the old geezer didn't realize is that he was putting himself and, even worse, his daughter Karen in mortal danger. Getting arrested by the Gestapo and thrown into the Grundorf Asylum, where the only way that one can come out of is in a wooden box, Karen franticly goes to Bill Roberts, who she just informed on, for help. Typical WWII propaganda movie with the American reporter having the beautiful German Fraulein fall heads over heels for him and help him not only escape from the hated Nazis but also go along with him. The "handsome" and "dashing" Col. Von Rau is done in by his private secretary Carla, Mona Maris, who feels that he's two timing her by him planning to marry Karen! This caused the outraged Clara to turn him over to the Gestapo for special treatment. Lover-boy Von Rau tries to play both women to his advantage but gets burned when his diabolical plan to have Karen's lover Bill Roberts, who earlier helped her father escape Nazi Germany, escape only to have him killed and his death covered up by electrocuting him on the camps barb wire. Von Rau is stymied when Bill knocks out the Nazi guard who was to pull the lever and thus Von Rau is arrested and eventually shot for being responsible for Bill's escape. Commindeering a plane Bill & Karen take off for natural Switzerland and then finding to their surprise that the planes Nazi pilot, Henry Rowland, joined in with them in their escape. What surprised me even more was that there wasn't a single German combat plane, not to mention the very effective German army anti-aircraft artillery, from the vaunted and powerful Luftwaffe around to stop them.