And oh how lucky you are if you decide to turn it off or switch to another TV channel. Had I been around in 1943 and went to see this with another movie is the main feature, I would have used that time to stock up on candy for the upcoming film rather than sit through the amateurish crud put on screen for the 70 minutes of this. It isn't so much bad as it is just simply boring, with the cliched filled script that badly utilizes the same repetitive nonsense used in dozens of anti-Nazi films since the beginning of the war. Even in the short running time, there are so many scenes that have absolutely nothing to do with the plot that it becomes a complete waste of time.
The main plot, concerning a Nazi ring of forger's working at a carnival at a Southern California beach, takes up maybe 1/4 of this film. Many of the scenes feature leading actor Dean Jagger kept claustrophobically in a locked room and dealing with the one note John Carradine who will suddenly have him flogged or slapped for saying something against their mission. Then all of a sudden, he's dancing on the beach with Mary Bryan, playing a carnival worker who has no idea what's going on.
With overly dramatic music that just makes the film seem all the more sillier and a very claustrophobic atmosphere, it's no surprise when there's all of a sudden a montage of newsreel footage including Hitler himself and even a glimpse of Frances Farmer who had to leave this film (fortunately for her) almost immediately after the beginning of shooting. In a sense, it's almost like an Ed Wood film where the directors just got an idea, started filming without a script, and made everything up as they went along. It truly is pathetic.
The main plot, concerning a Nazi ring of forger's working at a carnival at a Southern California beach, takes up maybe 1/4 of this film. Many of the scenes feature leading actor Dean Jagger kept claustrophobically in a locked room and dealing with the one note John Carradine who will suddenly have him flogged or slapped for saying something against their mission. Then all of a sudden, he's dancing on the beach with Mary Bryan, playing a carnival worker who has no idea what's going on.
With overly dramatic music that just makes the film seem all the more sillier and a very claustrophobic atmosphere, it's no surprise when there's all of a sudden a montage of newsreel footage including Hitler himself and even a glimpse of Frances Farmer who had to leave this film (fortunately for her) almost immediately after the beginning of shooting. In a sense, it's almost like an Ed Wood film where the directors just got an idea, started filming without a script, and made everything up as they went along. It truly is pathetic.