Rko's morale-building wartime thriller adds an element of sexual perversion to its story of Nazi crimes against children, thus creating one of the studio's all-time biggest hits. Bonita Granville is the victim Tim Holt her Nazi-youth heartthrob, and Otto Kruger provides the perverted sneers. Hitler's Children DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1943 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 82 min. / Street Date December 1, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger, H.B. Warner, Lloyd Corrigan, Erford Gage, Hans Conried, Gavin Muir, Nancy Gates, Egon Brecher, Peter van Eyck, Edward Van Sloan. Cinematography Russell Metty Film Editor Joseph Noriega Original Music Roy Webb Written by Emmet Lavery from the book Education for Death by Gregor Ziemer Produced by Edward A. Golden Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Perhaps the most popular anti-Nazi info-propaganda thriller of the war, Hitler's Children is a very well made shocker that...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Perhaps the most popular anti-Nazi info-propaganda thriller of the war, Hitler's Children is a very well made shocker that...
- 1/12/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Before he would be forever marked by the Hollywood Blacklist, Edward Dmytryk churned out a succession of B movies in the late 1930s and early 1940s, averaging a handful of projects a year (he had six films in 1941 alone). Right before his first major breakthrough with 1944’s film noir classic Murder, My Sweet, he’d churn out a quintet of wide-ranging projects the year prior. In between a monster movie for Universal (Captive Wild Woman starring Acquanetta), Dmytryk completed four war related items, including Tender Comrade with Ginger Rogers dealing with a new living situation while Robert Ryan serves overseas, the noir-ish The Falcon Strikes Back which concerns a phony war bond operation, and then an exploration of the rise of militarism in Japan as experienced by a returning veteran with Behind the Rising Sun. But none of these hold a candle to another title he unleashed that year, the sensational Hitler’s Children,...
- 12/22/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
With the premiere of Bomb Girls: Facing the Enemy coming in May, we are once again fascinated with all things related to the Second World War. This week we came across this animated WWII propaganda film made by none other than Walt Disney. "Education for Death" is based on a book of the same name written by Gregor Ziemer, and tells the story of a good-natured boy named Hans who is turned into a mindless drone thanks to a Nazi education. It's not every day that we see a decidedly Disney-made tot goose stepping and pledging his allegiance to the Führer. We can definitely see how short films like these helped to convince the American people that joining the war was worthwhile.
For a decidedly less creepy look at WWII, be sure to catch three back-to-back episodes of Bomb Girls Sunday on Reelz starting at 11am Et/ 8am Pt.
For a decidedly less creepy look at WWII, be sure to catch three back-to-back episodes of Bomb Girls Sunday on Reelz starting at 11am Et/ 8am Pt.
- 4/15/2014
- by Mandy McAdoo
- Reelzchannel.com
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