Correspondant de guerre

You will find this little bit of propoganda typical of the period mid Second World War just before the U. S. got drawn into the conflict by the Pearl Harbor attack quite enjoyable.

Very short running time but it has all the tropes of the propganda films. The villainous Nazi Gestapo being at the forefrunt here.

Dana Andrews delivers a gusto performance as the American Berlin 'Correspondent' who is revealing secrets from Germany over coded radio broadcasts.

He falls for a Gestapo agent who tries to investigate if he is the source of the leak in the process dragging her father into the Gestapo investigation with deadly consequences.

The film keeps you engrossed throughout and has some thrilling scenes more becoming of a higher budget film.

Dana Andrews plays an American radio correspondent whose broadcasts are suspected of concealing codes containing war information. Andrews becomes embroiled with a young Nazi sympathizer, played by Virginia Gilmore, whose father is an ardent anti-Nazi, and whose fiancée (Martin Kosleck) is a Nazi colonel. Andrews manages to pull off some rather outrageous stunts during this film but nevertheless, it's an entertaining, if somewhat typical propaganda film of the era.

Virginia Gilmore is very attractive, while Kosleck, as usual, is mean as dirt as the Nazi. In real life, of course, he got out of Germany just in time, as he was tried in absentia by the Nazis and sentenced to death. He enjoyed playing members of the Third Reich, as he loathed them for what they did to Germany.

"Berlin Correspondent" is set just before the United States entered World War II. Bill Roberts (Dana Andrews) is an American news correspondent and it's pretty obvious he hates Nazi Germany, which is where he's been stationed. The Nazis heavily censor his news broadcasts...yet somehow information about the Nazis seems to sneak out...and they suspect Bill is up to something. Eventually they learn his secret but instead of just being tossed out of the country, the Nazis have other plans for him.

Despite having Dana Andrews in the picture, this is a pretty unremarkable film. The Nazis are almost all stupid as well as evil...and Bill is able to trick them again and again because of this. If only the Nazis were this dumb! Overall, a decent time- passer but not much more. And, by the way, oddly the Germans almost all sound just like Americans!

Having been subjected to MSM propaganda recently throughout Covid and knowing it's a tool of government often used, it's interesting to view this early attempt by America to turn them against Germany.

This movie follows a correspondent played by Dana Andrews stuck in Berlin and allegedly passing secret information over the airwaves while being supervised about Germany's war effort back home.

It's an entertaining ride full of Inadvertent comedy.

The cliched Nazi villains are pathetic, none of who seem to have a clue how he passes the information.

The main SS villain had me laughing with his insults.

Most Germans were all in by 1941 and that didn't end well for them.

Fun movie with a predictable ending.

Very mucjh reminding of similar rants like "Comrade X" and Lubitsch's "To Be or Not to Be" and other similar comedies who all compete in turning all established officials into astronomic dunderheads and ridiculous idiots, and here is even Sig Ruman to complete the Nazi haberdashery getting out of his pants. All you miss here is a caricature of Hitler also. But Dana Andrews is good with a moustache, almost like Douglas Fairbanks Jr, and Virginia Gilmore is charming and sexy enough, even for a German spy. The plot is ridiculously absurd to start with, but when it comes to her father it gets more interesting, and there is even some inside views of a concentration camp with its atrocities - fairly iunknown to Amerticans in 1942. In brief, this is qualified entertainment, there are some pleasant surprises towards the end as the plots thicken up, and of course it all ends well for everyone except for Germany, - as everyone knows. It is better than "Comrade X" but can not compete with "To Be or Not to Bet" or with "Pimpernel Smith".