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Bookmark this pageVerboten! (1958)
Director: Samuel Fuller
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From Time Out Film Guide
The great Fuller at his punchy, unsubtle best, beginning with a long tracking shot of an American GI clambering through the grim rubble of war-torn Berlin (the rifle shotd of snipers intercut with the opening chords of Beethoven's 5th), and ending with an image of raging flames. In between, the film, set mostly in the immediate postwar period, charts the troubled relationship of the American, working for the occupying Allied Forces, with a German woman who saved his life and whi is surrounded by compatriots - including her younger brother - determined to revive the power of the Nazi movement. It's a tale of betrayal, violence, confusion and stark ironies, and takes in bravura action sequences, scenes of argumentative discourse, and documentary footage of the Nazi atrocities shown at the Nuremberg War Criminals Tribunal. Fuller's methods may not be sophisticated, but they are complex; as such, his own inimitably brash brand of didactism makes for riveting and powerful cinema.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Samuel Fuller
Producer: Samuel Fuller
Cast: James Best, Susan Cummings, Tom Pittman, Paul Dubov, Steven Geray full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 94 mins
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