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To: dfwgator; a fool in paradise
Confessions of a Nazi Spy with Edward G. Robinson released in May, 1939. Banned in Germany an other countries.

You Nazty Spy by the Three Stooges released in January 1940.

Alfred Hitchock's Foreign Correspondent was released in summer 1940, and included a specific appeal to Americans read by Joel McCrea. (It was a U.S. production, but mostly took place in England and Holland)

A few months later The Great Dictator by Charlie Chaplin was released.


Hitchcock made The Lady Vanishes in 1938 in England, in which the bad guys are clearly Nazis, although it's never made explicit.

There is a scene near the end, which is clearly meant to be a warning, and possibly a rebuke of Neville Chamberlain. A typical, stiff-upper-lip Brit tries to surrender to the bad guys and is shot.

11 posted on 09/22/2013 3:16:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I saw The Lady Vanishes on TCM yesterday. I guess it was a big hit in Britain when it came out and also in the US when it debuted here. Nothing subtle about it in hindsight.
38 posted on 09/23/2013 10:19:07 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Beware of kittens modifying your posts.)
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