Okay, I saw this title coming up on TCM and I had to watch it. What the heck could a movie called Hitler's Children be like? Well, it's your typical WWII love story. Nazi meets girl; Nazi loses girl; Nazi gets girl and they both die.
I understand this was propaganda for the American audiences during the war but really. To call the acting wooden is an insult to all trees and Alec Baldwin. Even Otto Kruger and Tim Holt seem to sink under the weight of the story.
Edward Dmytryk directed one of my favorite movies, The Caine Mutiny, as well as a great Chandler story, Murder My Sweet. But you had to be a member of the Hollywood Ten to think this movie should ever be released. Oh wait, Dmytryk was a member of the Hollywood Ten.
I give this movie a two because it tells a little bit of the horrors of the Nazis though obviously they didn't know everything that the Nazis were doing. But surely by 1943 people knew the Germans were doing worse things then sterilizing women.
There's just no suspense in this movie. And it's just not that you know how the movie will end after watching the first five minutes. Maybe the bad acting kept reminding me its only a movie but I think a typical Hogan's Heroes episode had more tension.
Didn't Hollywood have enough talent to make a better movie than this? At least Leni Riefenstahl made Triumph of the Will. Now that was a propaganda. Maybe she was a Nazi and maybe she wasn't. But where was Hollywood's Leni Riefenstahl?
I understand this was propaganda for the American audiences during the war but really. To call the acting wooden is an insult to all trees and Alec Baldwin. Even Otto Kruger and Tim Holt seem to sink under the weight of the story.
Edward Dmytryk directed one of my favorite movies, The Caine Mutiny, as well as a great Chandler story, Murder My Sweet. But you had to be a member of the Hollywood Ten to think this movie should ever be released. Oh wait, Dmytryk was a member of the Hollywood Ten.
I give this movie a two because it tells a little bit of the horrors of the Nazis though obviously they didn't know everything that the Nazis were doing. But surely by 1943 people knew the Germans were doing worse things then sterilizing women.
There's just no suspense in this movie. And it's just not that you know how the movie will end after watching the first five minutes. Maybe the bad acting kept reminding me its only a movie but I think a typical Hogan's Heroes episode had more tension.
Didn't Hollywood have enough talent to make a better movie than this? At least Leni Riefenstahl made Triumph of the Will. Now that was a propaganda. Maybe she was a Nazi and maybe she wasn't. But where was Hollywood's Leni Riefenstahl?