Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown thousands of supposedly conquered Europeans who still resist Adolf Hitler. As he watches from his mountain walls, he stands for every European saboteur who awaits the moment to jam the machine, plant the bomb, or pry up the railroad rail. He has directly inspired others, like Rumanian Patriot Ion Minulescu, who harries the Axis from the Carpathians, and Albanian and Montenegrin guerrillas who worry at Italian flanks on the Adriatic coast...
...size, in the long military experience of its leader and the great number of its troops, it dwarfs the forces of such historic guerrillas as the Tirolean patriot Andreas Hofer, the Philippines' Emilio Aguinaldo, and Mexico's Francisco "Pancho" ("I'll use the whole ocean to gargle") Villa...
Because the hero (Anton Walbrook) is a famed Polish pianist, Suicide Squadron resounds with melody. Its background score, composed by Richard Addinsel, is alone worth the price of admission. The picture follows Patriot Walbrook from gutted Warsaw to the U.S., underscores his marriage to a pretty U.S. heiress (Sally Gray) and her misbegotten attempt to keep him from flying with the remnants of his Polish squadron, reassembled in England...
...news for the people of France, where many a patriot and many a liberal is now in danger of the concentration-camp horrors which the Petain Government had so far spared them...
...Value of Petain. In the beginning, Marshal Petain had been a natural for Hitler. The old man was a totalitarian and a collaborationist who was also known to many Frenchmen as a French patriot. With his help the French Fleet and the French African bases were neutralized, forming a buffer between Britain and Axis operations in the Mediterranean. With his help democrats were purged from the French Navy, Army and police - a purge which Laval may find very handy...