American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France
Creator(s)
- United Films (Producer)
- United States. Army Pictorial Service. (Camera Operator)
- Jean Renoir (Director)
- Garson Kanin (Director)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
Scope and Content
An American anti-war propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 4: Shows French POWs in a German camp, the Free French fleet and air squadrons, scuttled French warships in Toulon, and advancing Allied troops. French troops are reviewed by de Gaulle and in Great Britain, and Russian and French underground fighters kill German sentries, blow up bridges, and ambush German motorcycle columns. Germans seize and execute French hostages.
Note(s)
More film contributors/credits: Writers: Philip Dunne; Jean Renoir; Burgess Meredith Editors: Marcel Cohen; Maria Reyto; Jean Oser Music: Kurt Weill
Subjects
- BRIDGES
- MILITARY ADVANCES
- MILITARY VEHICLES
- EXECUTIONS
- FIGHTING
- BOMBINGS
- MILITARY OFFICERS
- SHIPS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (ALLIES)
- RESISTERS/RESISTANCE
- MOTORCYCLES
- DE GAULLE, CHARLES
- FRANCE
- POWS (FRENCH)
- GERMANY
- PROPAGANDA
- POW CAMPS
Places
- , France
- , Germany
Genre
- Film
- Feature.
- Propaganda.
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