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
Douglas Sirk's first American movie came out so well that Prc sold it to MGM, earning Sirk a promotion out of the Poverty Row studios. John Carradine is excellent - and underplays! -- as the Hangman of Prague who moonlights as a depraved sex criminal. But the context in this wartime propaganda movie is serious -- it commemorates the Nazi murder of an entire Czech town. Hitler's Madman DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1943 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 84 min. / Street Date December 1, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 18.95 Starring Patricia Morrison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Ralph Morgan, Ludwig Stössel, Edgar Kennedy, Al Shean, Elizabeth Russell, Jimmy Conlin, Ava Gardner, Natalie Draper, Victor Kilian, Otto Reichow, Peter van Eyck, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Blanch Yurka. Cinematography (Eugen Schüfftan, credited as Technical Advisor), Jack Greenhalgh Film Editor Dan Milner Second unit and uncredited production designer Edgar G. Ulmer Original Music...
- 12/22/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
'Trumbo' movie: Bryan Cranston as screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and Helen Mirren as gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. 'Trumbo' movie review: Highly entertaining 'history lesson' Full disclosure: on the wall in my study hangs a poster – the iconic photograph of blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, with black-horned rim glasses, handlebar mustache, a smoke dangling from the end of a dramatic cigarette holder. He's sitting – stark naked – in a tub surrounded by his particular writing apparatus. He's looking directly into the camera of the photographer, his daughter Mitzi. Dalton Trumbo's son, Christopher Trumbo, gave me the poster after my interview with him for the release of Peter Askin's 2007 documentary also titled Trumbo. That film combines archival footage, including family movies and photographs, with performances of the senior Trumbo's letters to his family during their many years of turmoil before and through the blacklist, including his time in prison. The letters are read by,...
- 11/7/2015
- by Tim Cogshell
- Alt Film Guide
According to Amazon.com, the most popular DVD and Blu-ray coming out today is "The Bible: The Epic Miniseries," meaning religion will always be good for business, or maybe rubberneckers are too curious about Glenn Beck's goofy claim that the character of Satan in Roma Downey's History Channel hit looked conspicuously like President Obama. Speaking of Downeys, the fanboy elite can now re-own "Iron Man 2" and five other recent superhero flicks in Walt Disney Video's ten-disc "Marvel Cinematic Universe, Phase One: Avengers Assembled" Blu-ray box set with mass-produced "collectible" memorabilia and a "Top-Secret Bonus Disc" for the low, low price of $219. That's a trunk load of video-store rentals or months' worth of Netflix service, if you ask this cinephile, who thinks you're better off seeking out these far more super films: "Hitler's Children" (Film Movement) That provocative title might be misleading since the Fuhrer never actually had kids,...
- 4/3/2013
- by Aaron Hillis
- Indiewire
Its wide range of contributors and influences make Lore something more than just another tale of post-Nazi Germany
Given its transnational provenance – its Anglo-German source novel adapted by a British-Bengali screenwriter, its Australian director and its bleak Nazi-era subject matter – I'm reluctant to dub Lore a straightforwardly German movie. This might seem counterintuitive given its story: a 14-year-old German daughter of prominent Nazis is left to trek northwards across a ruined Germany in the weeks after the Nazi collapse, her infant siblings and a displaced Jewish boy in tow, and her Nazi assumptions slowly unravelling.
That bald summary might induce one to categorise Lore in the long and honourable line of movies set against the death-seizures of Hitler's regime. That line stretched from Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, shot contemporaneously in 1947 in the actual smoking ruins, to 2008's Anonyma, in which sexual servitude is seen as one woman's only sane response...
Given its transnational provenance – its Anglo-German source novel adapted by a British-Bengali screenwriter, its Australian director and its bleak Nazi-era subject matter – I'm reluctant to dub Lore a straightforwardly German movie. This might seem counterintuitive given its story: a 14-year-old German daughter of prominent Nazis is left to trek northwards across a ruined Germany in the weeks after the Nazi collapse, her infant siblings and a displaced Jewish boy in tow, and her Nazi assumptions slowly unravelling.
That bald summary might induce one to categorise Lore in the long and honourable line of movies set against the death-seizures of Hitler's regime. That line stretched from Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, shot contemporaneously in 1947 in the actual smoking ruins, to 2008's Anonyma, in which sexual servitude is seen as one woman's only sane response...
- 2/18/2013
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
This weekly column is intended to provide reviews of nearly every new release, including films on VOD (and in certain cases some studio releases). Specifics release dates and locations follow each review. Reviews This Week "Anna Karenina" "Funeral Kings" "Generation P" "Hitler's Children" "The King" "First Winter" "Mea Maxima Culpa" "Price Check" "La Rafle" "Silver Linings Playbook" *** "Anna Karenina" With somber-eyed Keira Knightley in the titular role, one might expect the usual from "Anna Karenina": A mopey period piece with little to offer beyond the expected turmoil of Leo Tolstoy's classic. That superficial assumption ignores director Joe Wright's capacity as a visual stylist to inject the material with a greater amount of energy -- both...
- 11/15/2012
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
A bunch of new shots from Moonrise Kingdom, Piranha 3Dd, Men in Black 3, and The Hulk gracing the cover of Muscle and Fitness magazine.
There's also set photos of Rooney Mara filming Bitter Pill, Woody Harrelson shooting Now You See Me, Paul Rudd at work on Lucky Dog, and more shots of Dwayne Johnson shooting Pain and Gain.
Posters for The Host, Take this Waltz, The Magic of Belle Isle, Safety Not Guaranteed, and a Spanish teaser poster for Django Unchained.
Concept art from NBC's Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane.
"Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures have changed the title of their upcoming Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren-led film about the making of "Psycho" from the original long form title "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" to simply "Hitchcock". Shooting kicks off tomorrow in Los Angeles…" (full details)
"Interest in Marvel's "The Avengers" is high, now the first figures...
There's also set photos of Rooney Mara filming Bitter Pill, Woody Harrelson shooting Now You See Me, Paul Rudd at work on Lucky Dog, and more shots of Dwayne Johnson shooting Pain and Gain.
Posters for The Host, Take this Waltz, The Magic of Belle Isle, Safety Not Guaranteed, and a Spanish teaser poster for Django Unchained.
Concept art from NBC's Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane.
"Fox Searchlight Pictures and Montecito Pictures have changed the title of their upcoming Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren-led film about the making of "Psycho" from the original long form title "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho" to simply "Hitchcock". Shooting kicks off tomorrow in Los Angeles…" (full details)
"Interest in Marvel's "The Avengers" is high, now the first figures...
- 4/12/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Film Movement has taken North American rights to Israeli documentary, "Hitler's Children" from director Chanoch Ze'evi. The doc, which will be released in New York this fall followed by a national roll-out and VOD release, looks at the descendants of top Nazi officials and the struggle in their lives to move beyond the horrors of their past. While Hitler himself did not have children, many of his associates did -- including Adolf Eichmann, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler and Hans Frank. The synopsis are trailer are below. Film Movement's Rebeca Conget calls the film, "important, and powerful, and emotional on so many levels. It makes you question the idea of inherited guilt and responsibility, and the power of history on the individual’s psyche. We are hoping it will be seen by millions of people in North America, and open up dialog and discussion on the effects of the Holocaust...
- 4/11/2012
- by Sophia Savage
- Indiewire
It's Cinco de Mayo -- a.k.a. the day where it's socially acceptable for white people to don sombreros and fetch that Tequiza bottle from the back of their fridge. It also reminds us of the countless classic movie posters and lobby cards Mexico released for everything from "Gone With the Wind" to "Hitler's Children."
The format was always the same: Superimpose a still from the film over selected artwork. But the results were always campy brilliance. In the spirit of the holiday, we rounded up some of our favorite Mexican versions of classic movie posters below.
'The African Queen'
'Deliverance'
'The Empire Strikes Back'
'The French Connection'
'Gone With the Wind'
'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly'
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
'Psycho'
'Rebel Without a Cause'
'The Shining'
Head to SantoStreet for more classic Mexican movie posters.
The format was always the same: Superimpose a still from the film over selected artwork. But the results were always campy brilliance. In the spirit of the holiday, we rounded up some of our favorite Mexican versions of classic movie posters below.
'The African Queen'
'Deliverance'
'The Empire Strikes Back'
'The French Connection'
'Gone With the Wind'
'The Good, The Bad and the Ugly'
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'
'Psycho'
'Rebel Without a Cause'
'The Shining'
Head to SantoStreet for more classic Mexican movie posters.
- 5/5/2011
- by Jason Newman
- NextMovie
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