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The First of the Few, (known as Spitfire in the United States), is a 1942
British film, starring and directed by Leslie Howard, and co-starring Davi...
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The First of the Few, (known as Spitfire in the United States), is a 1942
British film, starring and directed by Leslie Howard, and co-starring David
Niven. The film score was written by William Walton, the Spitfire Prelude
and Fugue.
It is a biography of R.J. Mitchell, the designer of the Supermarine Spitfire.
The film's title refers to the words of Winston Churchill who, when
speaking of the Battle of Britain aircrew said: "Never in the field of human
conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Almost inevitably, because the film was made during the Second World
War and dealt with subjects related to the war, it was effectively
propaganda and consequently contained several inaccuracies:
* In the film Mitchell's exact illness is not mentioned. Mitchell had rectal
cancer and had a colostomy in 1933. However the film gave many people
the impression that he had tuberculosis.
* Mitchell did not work himself to death on the Spitfire, an impression
one could conceivably get from this film. He did make sacrifices for his
work despite the pain of his illness, and he did continue tweaking and
perfecting the Spitfire design up until his death, so this is more misleading
than inaccurate.
* Mitchell did not visit Germany and so never met Willy Messerschmitt.
The film shows that the trip convinced him to design the Spitfire.
The First of the Few was a British film produced and directed by Leslie
Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R.J. Mitchell. It tells the story
of Mitchell's life and how he developed the design for the famous RAF
fighter. David Niven plays his friend and test pilot Geoffrey Crisp, who
narrates the biography in flashback. Leslie Howard bore little
resemblance to R. J. Mitchell, however, as Mitchell was a large and
athletic man. Howard portrayed Mitchell as upper class and mildmannered.
Mitchell - "the Guv'nor" - was in fact working class and had an
explosive temper; apprentices were told to watch the colour of his neck
and to run if it turned red.
However, the film contains precious footage that would be otherwise be
lost to posterity:
* Film footage of the Supermarine S.4 in taking off from Southampton
Water, and in flight, which is now available nowhere else.
* Inter-war footage of aerobatic German sailplane flight, of a Grunau
Baby in flight, and a Lohning Lo. 100 pulling loop. Again, this is rare
footage and thus precious.
Leslie Howard's portrayal of Mitchell has a special significance since
Howard was killed when the transport aircraft in which he was a
passenger was shot down by the Luftwaffe one year after the film was
released.
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Confessions of a Nazi spy by Anatole Litvak from...
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Confessions of a Nazi spy by Anatole Litvak from 1939 starring Edward G. Robinson.
"Confessions of a Nazi Spy" opens with three seemingly unconnected sequences: an announcer reporting the recent conviction of members of a Nazi spy ring in America; a postal delivery to a woman called Mary McLaughlin in Scotland; and a Hitler-style address by a Dr Kassel to a rally held by a German-American organisation known as the Bund. The common link between the three sequences is a network of Nazi espionage and subversion centred on Franz Schlager, an officer on a German passenger liner, the SS Bismarck, which makes regular trips to New York.
On the voyage from Germany, the Bismarck brings Nazi propaganda material for distribution by Kassel's organisation, and on the homeward run she takes US military plans and other classified information obtained by Schlager's agents. Schlager is also the ship's political leader. As such he is able to lord it over everyone, even the captain, and he warns the crew that they will not escape the `protecting eye' of their government even when they are on American soil - a veiled reference to the Gestapo, whose agents are seen keeping tabs on Germans in America.
One of Schlager's recruits is a man called Kurt Schneider, who fancies himself as a spy. Initially Schneider has some success, partly because American security is wide open. He recruits a former army colleague, the simple-minded Werner, who is now a private in Army Air Corps. But he comes undone when he goes over Schlager's head and writes (via Mary McLaughlin) to Berlin, proposing the kidnapping of an American colonel. Tipped off by the postman, who has become suspicious of McLaughlin's frequent letters from abroad, British Military Intelligence arrests McLaughlin and tips off the FBI about Schneider. FBI agent Edward Renard, who has so far specialised in combating gangsters, now turns to counter-espionage and makes a clean sweep of the spy ring, including Kassel.
When Kassel is released on bail, he gets a taste of his own medicine: he is kidnapped by the Gestapo and sent back to Germany, as others have been before him. As the remaining spies are convicted, spinning newspaper headlines report how the `fifth column' (pro-Nazi Germans) have used subversion and sabotage to pave the way for Hitler's conquest of Western Europe. Following the trial, a conversation between Renard and the attorney who prosecuted the case serves as a warning to Americans not to take their liberty, or their security, for granted.
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He knew Catherine the Great...
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He knew Catherine the Great, Count Cagliostro, Casanova and the man in the Moon's daughter. He rode on a cannonball and lived on the moon. He was the legendary Baron Münchhausen, and his exploits are celebrated in the most lavish colour film made during hte Third Reich. Commissioned in 1941 by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels to commemorate the twentyfifth anniversary of Germany's greatest film studio, UFA, Münchhausen became the biggest entertainment project of the Third Reich. If you see this movie, you think I am lying that this movie is from WWII, but it really is! See for yourself and enjoy. This movie got a good dose of humour and you will be amased about the special effects.
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Keep em coming bro.
Gracias, y saludos de Andalucia/Espana.
-Michael
Wollte fragen wie ich Potpourri der Deutsche Armee als Mp3 bekomme !!
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Manny Greets from Germany
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