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...life and honor. He was on trial for treason against France, the first high Vichyite brought to bar for trafficking with Germany. But the courtroom mirrored more than one man's struggle. All week long, before a military tribunal headed by Judge Léon Verin, impassioned Frenchmen of the Left, Center and Right denounced and defended Vichy's tangled, tortuous policy of collaboration...
...workers at the behest of the Nazi Reich. His accusers said that the Council of Resistance in the homeland had long ago condemned Pierre Pucheu to death. They cited repressive Vichy measures bearing Pierre Pucheu's signature. Presumably their most telling evidence was presented in camera, lest unknown Frenchmen in France suffer...
This bit of news aroused men in a dozen nations, from the Italian sailors who pondered serving under Stalin, to the Turks who wondered if the U.S. were going to press for Russian access to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus. Frenchmen, Yugoslavs and Greeks suddenly realized that they, too, had a claim to some of Italy's ships. But for once Franklin Roosevelt had scooped Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin on a big piece of news...
News about conditions in the Reich came from U.S. newpapermen who had concluded an involuntary 13-month assignment in swanky Baden-Baden. They had been caught with U.S. diplomats and relief workers when the Nazis marched into Vichy. Now, exchanged for Germans and Frenchmen interned in the U.S., they were sailing home from Lisbon...
There is a lot of ardent acting in Passage to Marseille, a fair amount of excitement, and a large, generous intention to show France, and Frenchmen, at their worst and best. But this important intention, even when it becomes articulate, struggles like a fly in molasses against the pseudo-solemn theatricality with which the film is conceived and executed...