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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
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Genre: Drama, War | USA

Prior to the United States entry into World War II, Nazi spies try to steal American military secrets. Among those whose passions are roused is Kurt Schneider who was court-martialed and dishonorably discharged from the US Army. Schneider is not very bright and is easily swayed by the oratory of Dr. Karl Kassel, a prominent physician who is eventually made the head of the Nazi spy ring. When Schneider's contact is arrested in Scotland, the US military asks the FBI to root out the spies. Agent Edward Renard is put in charge of the case and they methodically arrest all who have been spying.

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Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)

Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)


Director: Anatole Litvak
Writer: Milton Krims (screen play), John Wexley (screen play), Leon G. Turrou (based on the articles of)
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders, Paul Lukas
Rated: N/A
Runtime: 104 min

This straightforward, hard-hitting and timely anti-Nazi propaganda film from Warner Bros. was released just as Germany invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia and six months before the official beginning of World War II. It's based on an actual spy ring case that took place a year before, and is taken from the magazine articles written by FBI agent Leon G. Turrou. He was one of the agents working on the case and he was dismissed by the FBI because the trial was still in progress while he delivered his articles, which caused a conflict of interest. In the movie the prosecution of the espionage ring is seen as a great triumph (four spies are convicted), but in reality it was a botched effort as most of the spies escaped to Germany as the prosecution made a series of blunders and only three spies were arrested. Leftist writer John Wexley's fingerprints are all over the screenplay in a good way. Anatole Litvak ("Mayerling"/ "Anastasia"/"The Snake Pit") directs with great conviction in a semi-documentary style (using actual newsreel footage that were from the day's headlines) and though it's a real flag waver, it retains a certain power due to the significant historical circumstances of its trying to wake up the sleeping American public to the dangers of Nazism that were possible even in America. It warns that the espionage is related to the German government recruiting the German-American Bunds to do its dirty work to sabotage America and its democratic ideals. Daring for its day, even causing studio head Jack Warner to receive death threats. Glaringly it omits the Nazi's fervor of anti-Semitism, but aside from that lapse it served a useful purpose by getting a lot of the facts right about the espionage ring uncovered and recognizing the danger of these spies if the country was unprepared to go after them. Unfortunately it didn't do a good box office, as the American public was not ready for another war at the time and though the movie was the usual well-executed Warner Bros. film of this exposé type it never caught their interest. Warner's could nevertheless be proud that they made the first anti-Nazi film produced by a major studio.

It takes about 45 minutes to set-up the plot and establish the leading characters until the film's star Edward G. Robinson is introduced as a top FBI agent named Ed Renard, who ends up toppling the ring with his dogged investigation after acting on a tip by British intelligence who arrest a Mrs. McLaughlin in Scotland for manning the central place for the Nazi ring to post its mail. The German spies include Francis Lederer (a loose cannon egotistical loser who volunteers to be a spy for money and when caught gives away the whole operation even though he's a small cog in the ring), George Sanders (arrogant cold-blooded Nazi leader on the German ocean liner S. S. Bismarck who heads the spy network in America), Paul Lukas (a sleazy adulterous medical doctor who gives at Bund meetings in the Yorkville section of Manhattan rabble-rousing speeches to inspire all Germans to be loyal to Hitler and for Germans to take control of America through sabotage), and Sig Ruman (a Nazi government official who works to get the spies back to the fatherland); while Henry O'Neill is the U.S. Attorney who prosecutes the four small-time spies accused who were captured: Dorothy Tree (the beauty parlor worker on the ship who is the lover of Sanders), Joe Sawyer (the moronic army friend of Lederer), Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (a minor fifth columnist) and Lederer.

– Ozus' World Movie Reviews [Dennis Schwartz]


Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)



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