The Hitler Gang

Summary The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film. View more details

The Hitler Gang

Directed : John Farrow

Written : Frances Goodrich Albert Hackett Kurt Neumann

Stars : Bobby Watson Roman Bohnen Victor Varconi Martin Kosleck

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Genres : Drama History War Biography

Release date : Dec 14, 1944

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Paramount Pictures

Summary The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film. View more details

Details

Genres : Drama History War Biography

Release date : Dec 14, 1944

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Paramount Pictures

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Hitler's Irishman: The Story of Lord Haw-Haw

Hitler's Irishman: The Story of Lord Haw-Haw

On a bitterly cold morning in January 1946, an Irishman whose voice was as well known as Churchill's, was hanged in England's grim Wandsworth gaol. It was always inconceivable that William Joyce, known to millions as 'Lord Haw-Haw', would escape the death penalty. However, just as with Roger Casement a generation earlier, it took considerable legal ingenuity on the part of the British establishment to ensure that Joyce was hanged. Lord Haw-Haw was the classic traitor. Broadcasting to millions from Nazi Germany, he played a part in sapping the collective spirit of wartime Britain. A grotesque figure, laughed at but secretly feared, his psychological defiance was mythologised by prolonged wartime anxiety. Hitler's Irishman: The Story of Lord Haw-Haw is a documentary by noted British feature film director, Brian Gilbert, for whom the story of William Joyce has been a lifelong obsession. In all Gilbert's work (e.g. 'Wilde', 'Tom and Viv', 'Not Without My Daughter'), he has sought to peel away the layers of complex characters and reveal the dark heart of fanaticism, self-invention and attachment to ideals at all cost. Hitler's Irishman: The story of Lord Haw-Haw is a creative documentary portrait of the compulsive and complex Irishman who recreated himself in a romantic and imagined ideal of Englishness, which he took to a monstrous and fanatical degree that would ultimately lead to his own undoing. Fascist thug? Irish intellectual? British traitor? German hero? Who, in fact, was the real William Joyce?

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