seen it, probably twice. it's a good documentary, even if somewhat incomplete. and one doesn't usually think of Warner Bros. as a particularly courageous bunch of guys, but they DID do the first feature about Nazis in the US, even if the truth turned out to be a lot worse than the movie ("Confessions of a Nazi Spy") indicates.
seen it, probably twice. it's a good documentary, even if somewhat incomplete.
and one doesn't usually think of Warner Bros. as a particularly courageous bunch of guys, but they DID do the first feature about Nazis in the US, even if the truth turned out to be a lot worse than the movie ("Confessions of a Nazi Spy") indicates.
They not only made the movie (in 1938), but took a lot of heat from their fellow Hollywood Jews for doing it and causing trouble. Hollywood didn't want to get into this because the German film market for American films was the most profitable in Europe. And they got really POed at Warners when the Germans used that movie to ban US films from German exhibition.
seen it, probably twice. it's a good documentary, even if somewhat incomplete.
and one doesn't usually think of Warner Bros. as a particularly courageous bunch of guys, but they DID do the first feature about Nazis in the US, even if the truth turned out to be a lot worse than the movie ("Confessions of a Nazi Spy") indicates.
They not only made the movie (in 1938), but took a lot of heat from their fellow Hollywood Jews for doing it and causing trouble. Hollywood didn't want to get into this because the German film market for American films was the most profitable in Europe. And they got really POed at Warners when the Germans used that movie to ban US films from German exhibition.