Marya, the White Russian, uses Schultz to impersonate Goering just as Hogan is trying to save a trainload of stolen art.Marya, the White Russian, uses Schultz to impersonate Goering just as Hogan is trying to save a trainload of stolen art.Marya, the White Russian, uses Schultz to impersonate Goering just as Hogan is trying to save a trainload of stolen art.
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- TriviaReference is twice made to "Carinhall." Carinhall was Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering's country estate located north of Berlin, where he secreted many of the art treasures he looted during Nazi Germany's reign. It was named for Goering's first wife Carin, who died in 1931, two years before the Nazis took power in Germany. In April 1945, Goering ordered Carinhall destroyed before advancing Soviet forces could capture it. Many of the art treasures left hidden on the estate were subsequently discovered and looted by the Russians.
- GoofsThe chalk map drawn on the truck door in the introduction has 'Carinhall' spelled with a 'K' at the beginning.
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Col. Hogan: [about Hochsetter] Why did he have to show up?
Kinchloe: What now, Colonel?
Col. Hogan: Well, in about two minutes, they're gonna be on their way to inspect Reich Marshall Goring.
Carter: Schultz?
Col. Hogan: I don't think he's gonna pass inspection.
LeBeau: What happens to Marya?
Newkirk: Never mind that. What happens to us?
Col. Hogan: Nothing good unless we move fast. Carter, get outside and start the attack.
Carter: Yes, sir.
Col. Hogan: Kinch, stay in radio contact with the planes. If they don't get a landing signal, tell them to get out of here and fast.
Kinchloe: Right, Colonel.
Col. Hogan: LeBeau, Newkirk, go with Carter.
LeBeau: Right.
Newkirk: What about you, sir?
Col. Hogan: I'm on my way to Klink's quarters. And don't ask me why, because I don't know.
The Heroes, the intelligence and sabotage unit under Colonel Hogan operating clandestinely from a German prisoner of war camp, get wind of a train that will be passing by Stalag 13 containing many of Goering's priceless looted art treasures. Hastily hiding the map of a proposed operation chalked onto a truck door in the motor pool (you decide if it's daring, stupid, or just plain lazy writing) as Schultz, puffed up with pride, approaches to tell them he's been asked to escort Goering into camp.
Of course it's a ruse by Marya (Nita Talbot), the randy, florid White Russian playing both sides of the fence, who convinces Schultz to imitate Goering as she enters Stalag 13, encounters the Heroes and their plan to kidnap Goering, and persuades them to join forces with her to help boost Fat Hermann's loot--and won't the Heroes be surprised to find they're trying to kidnap Schultz and not Goering?
Not. Did Powell put off scripting this reheated baloney right up until deadline? Good thing he had the script for his Season Two's "Heil Klink" handy because he just cribbed from it for "Fat Hermann, Go Home," with Goering being smuggled into Stalag 13 instead of Hitler, although when Sergeant Carter is supposed to simulate an attacking force as a diversion by using firecrackers (okay, Corporals LeBeau and Newkirk briefly fire off submachine guns as well), it's supposed to be a battalion--the same strength as in "Heil Klink." (The art-theft ploy was also used in Laurence Marks's "The Collector General" from Season Three.)
Talbot might not be your shot of vodka, but she's the most compelling element in this tired, farcical formula as her Marya stage-manages the caper with Hogan playing second fiddle for a change, both neutralizing a blustering if ultimately ineffectual Major Hochstetter and a fatuous Colonel Klink as Powell phones it in. "Fat Hermann, Go Home" isn't only not a masterpiece, it's not even a good forgery.
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- darryl-tahirali
- Aug 3, 2023