It can't be helped, but this is a great film made on a great script of universal validity for all times against any tyranny, any oppression and dictatorship. It's only a B-feature but more eloquent than most A-features and definitely in the front row of the expressions of the awakening America to the reality of the bolting inhumanity of Nazi Germany. Colonel Heller (Martin Kosleck) couldn't be more abominable in his consistent hardcore inhumanity, he is a monster and not quite credible as such, and you must wonder: Was it actually possible for ordinary human beings of the Nazi party to allow themselves to be completely brainwashed out of every fragment of any human feeling? Perhaps that question never can be answered, as you have to accept the facts of characters like Hitler, Himmler and all the concentration camp architects of SS and Gestapo. Hitler is supposed to have wondered himself at Reinhard Heydrich's extreme inhumanity with nothing left at all except reptilian insensitivity and callousness. The story is great, the dialog is pregnant all the way, all the characters are convincing, and all you can object against is the utter cruelty and inhumanity of any dictatorship which is the main object of the film to reveal to an incredulous world that still after 80 years have difficulties in understanding and accepting it. Thus the problem remains imminent ever, and the film focuses on the vital necessity of never allowing it to thrive.
Review of Underground
