Such a charming, fun, and funny movie! Some hilarious one-liners! Thank you for sharing this and to poorthing for posting Madeleine Carroll's fascinating life story post WWII.
William Troy for The Nation said, "It is the kind of picture calculated to make us believe that there is something beautiful and touching about war, after all.
A tragic love story, well acted and filmed, and showing a good bit of history along the way. "Spare the rod..." was a lesson learned the hard way. I love to see how people lived back then, and this had several interesting people to follow. TY!
Excellent film with a heavyweight cast of acting notables---Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt and Gerald DuMaurier. Madeleine Carroll is a most elegant (that aristocratic Voice) and capable actress...more than just a "pretty face". One sees the great intelligence Hitchcock recognized and effectively mobilized in his early films. A shame that Her name seems to be falling into a bit obscurity as deserves to be better known among 21st century audiences. I particularly liked her in The General Died at Dawn (36), another war adventure / spy film as the naive daughter of a munitions runner who matures fast. What's so remarkable about Carroll's biography and this film is that she did indeed suspend her Hollywood career during WWII to work as a Front Line Red Cross Nurse. So it becomes almost "biographical". She was highly decorated for her devotion to service. I wonder if these film roles (Blockade, 1938) inspired her that there was more to one's life than being a "glamour gal".
This movie fell under the jurisdiction of banned films-in this movie a professor exposes him to allegedly radical ideas, could be racism. But, what professor doesn't put things in people's head. For instance: history, sociology, humanities, art all either differ or peril the main hub of subject matter. In retrospect, this movie came out a winner & showed thru out the world. Press Releases - pr_07-16-19 - Supreme Court of the United States
I wonder about the wisdom of blaming all the people of a country for the inhumanity of their rulers. Evil people often obtain power by evil means and hold onto that power the the same means. Evil people are often masters at masking their true nature. Anyway...
Although Madeleine Carroll was top billed this was very much a supporting role for her along with third billed Louis Hayward at his unctuous best. Madeleine and Brian Aherne, two fellow Brummies
Excellent portrayal of the times, conditions and tough-choices One must make in such a scenario - one that has indeed happened many-times throughout History. …I found this excellent, the acting and directing extremely emotive and effective. Thank-You!
Children need to be taught what's right and wrong. Not this crazy your truth is truth. The Mom understood this. The boy turned on his dad bc he had no respect for his dad's leniency towards him. SMH @ 30:50. Felt kinda bad for the dad. Intriguing movie!
Feels like they took the premise of this story to make the comedy series Allo Allo. There have been several comedy series that took a piss out of a serious events in history.
