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Review title: A nice period piece
Product review: I think that some of the people who have reviewed this film have forgotten or miss the point that at the time the movie was made, the USSR was an ally of the USA and that the film industry was expected to show our ally in a good light...especially given the fact that for many years most Americans had been taught (as they would be again after the war) that the Communist USSR was the great boogy man.Although much of the movie stretches credulity today, it really seems little different in its heroics than other, more American propoganda pieces like BATAAN or CORREGIDOR or, for that matter WAKE ISLAND where all Americans are good and all the enemy are evil. It was a convention of the times. The cast and directing are really quite good, and the Hellman script is not really bad so much as being the required two dimensional. Forget the polemics, relax, and watch a first rate cast, director, and crew work with Hollywood's usual high production values.
