Word: anti-nazi
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...anti-Nazi picture cycle that began with Confessions of a Nazi Spy (see p. 70) has done U. S. cinema relations with Latin America no good. Latins are largely leery of any kind of propaganda that may give offense to Axis nations. Confessions of a Nazi Spy was banned in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, several Central American countries. Mortal Storm was prohibited in Costa Rica, Guatemala, has not yet been passed in Brazil...
Quick to placate the troubled Senator were Hollywood spokesmen. Few anti-Nazi films were in production. Reason: from Warner Bros.' sensational Confessions of a Nazi Spy to Charlie Chaplin's $2,000,000 satire, The Great Dictator, anti-Nazi films have been disappointing at the box office. Reason: they were too depressing...
Since his return to the United States Mowrer has been the Washington correspondent of the Chicago News, and has recently become extremely active as a lecturer for the Committee to Defend America by Alding the Allies. His anti-Nazi views have been expounded in a number of books, among which "Germany Turns Back the Clock" and "The Dragon Awakes" are the best known...
...nevertheless takes much more than heightened scenic effect to give a play dramatic power. During most of two acts of Flight to the West it is a series of recitations rather than drama. The sentiments are those ubiquitous in anti-Nazi journalism...
...cast is excellent, especially Eleonora Mendelssohn as the sad, contained Jewess, Paul von Hernreid as the prideful Nazi, and Betty Field as the war-sick bride. But Playwright Rice is so anti-Nazi that the play has a flat taste, like propaganda...