Word: undergrounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exile speedily followed with messages to their countrymen. Premiers Pieter S. Gerbrandy of The Netherlands and Hubert Pierlot of Belgium told their people of the opening of invasion, and called on them to resist the Germans "with all means . . . wherever resistance is possible." Both leaders added special warnings to underground fighters not to be tricked into premature action, but to follow only genuine Allied orders broadcast from London. Similar messages of encouragement and caution went to Norway from King Haason VII, to Poland from Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk...
Taffy-haired, wide-eyed Gunnar Skog (a pseudonym) was a schoolboy of 16 when the Nazis overran Norway four years ago. Like thousands of others among his 2,900,000 countrymen, he went into the underground to fight the German-Quisling tyranny. Recently he escaped to Sweden, then to Britain. Last week, en route through New York to "Little Norway" in Canada, where he expects to become a Royal Air Force navigator, he told this story of life under the Germans...
...factory we got underground bulletins with the latest news from the BBC twice a day. The underground press works very hard and Norwegians are well informed about what is going on in the world. When the R.A.F. bombed Oslo they killed some civilians. The quislings made big headings in the paper to show us that Germans resist an awful people trying to bomb out civilians, but we knew the R.A.F. was trying to hit the Gestapo headquarters. It is bad, of course, that civilians have to be killed, but it was a good try and we didn't care...
...embroidery on the basic theme, the is laid in Occupied France and the criminal changes his spots by aiding the Underground. Errol Flynn carries of this part well and, with his customary savoir faire in matters feminine provides the romantic interest. For those who like expert acting. Paul Lukas gives his usual superb performance as an inspector for the Surote. Jean Sullivan a particularly pretty and capable actress by the simple country girl who regenerates Flynn and steels him for his sacrifice...
...Underground Report simply illustrates the first Nazi attempts at ingratiation, which soon turn to brutality, and the sullen grief of the conquered French, which soon turns to cold ferocity. In shot after shot of the film, this drama is shown more vividly than the U.S. has ever seen it before. There must be at least 50 moments in the picture's 20 minutes which have tragic, symbolic, or historic grandeur...