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Shining Through (1992)

Director: David Seltzer

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A lavish, ludicrous WWII melodrama in which Griffith plays a plucky, half-Jewish secretary from New York who, through her job with lawyer and secret spymaster Douglas, becomes involved in romance, mystery and adventure. Hired for her German-speaking skills, Griffith is on hand when a key Berlin spy is murdered, and volunteers to replace him. Taken on as a cook by a prominent Nazi, she plans to microfilm documents and pass them on to US Intelligence. In no other respect does intelligence, or plausibility, come into it. As Griffith tries to save the Free World from prototype 'doodlebug' rockets, the contrived plot and manufactured suspense spiral into absurdity ('Mein Gott, you've got guts'). Griffith provides an earthy counterpoint to Douglas' stern father-figure, but everyone else is just plain embarrassing.

Author: NF

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Posted on Apr 14 2008 08:37 So, the end of story should be: ed and Linda were both arrested by Gestapo. Movie makers think the Germans were so silly? Come on !!
Ed could work on enemy territory without speaking German!???
Linda was sent to Germany without any training except for the use of camera!???
She could have killed everyone of Sunflower’s network even if Margrete had not been a Gestapo agent.
Come on! Where is the convincing plot?!!!!

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jack said...

Posted on Apr 14 2008 08:16 margarete worked for gestapo. so, sunflower must have been controlled by gestapo. how could this old man help the two protagnists to escape?

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