Kurt_Steiner Minus the dodgy interpretation of history.
U-571 isn't a bad film in itself, but the constant facepalm at the historical 'facts' makes it rather hard to watch.
oh i want to see mossies ( if i'm right about which year it is in AAO I think I know what you mean with "special" )
I have not seen "The Great Dictators" or any of Chaplins movies if i remember correctly, maybe i should do something about that
trekaddict
Interesting. Was the film made in America, in the post civil-war period, or in Britain/Canada after Chaplin and others fled the new communist state? I'm not sure it would have gone down well in America after the communist take-over.
Since UA relocated to Britain would it be correct to call Niven the 1st British member rather than Chaplin who presumably regained his British citizenship.
While I hope that a British dominated film industry would have some more respect for history than the Americans OTL would they actually avoid a Red scare period after the war? After all their just fought a long and bloody war with the Soviet Union, which is still in existence and their main threat is the Red America.
With the Mossies I was initially thinking about the strike at the Gestapo HQ in the Netherlands but you say it's something new. Have to see what develops.
Steve
If so expect a great deal more films to feature dramatic rain rather than bright vistas of sunshine. Ohh and John Wayne is either (1) making Communist Westerns (which will be hilarious) or (2) struggling to be a movie cowboy in the Welsh valleys not the Mojave Desert.
Personally I'm rooting for (1) complete with people rounding up a collective instead of a posse, people declaring themselves to be 'The new peoples commissar for justice' instead of sheriff and the use of ushanka hats not stetsons.
doubt the british public has any compelling interest in cowboy movies. i'd expect a lot more movies about hornblower sharpe et al. the thin red line and the khyber pass probably resonate more with the british than cowboy movies would. guess you could haul off to australia or alberta if you needed the scenery to do a cowboy movie. remember reading that the last big cowboy movie had to be shot in alberta because the location people couldn't find anyplace in the usa that had those great vistas with no roads/fences.
The Film was made in 1940/41, in Britain. In fact it is banned in the UAPR because a lot of the mockery can easily be applied to them.
Niven is the first member they recruited in Britain, because Chaplin did indeed regain his citizenship.
The lack of a Red Scare is explained by a few factors: The boogieman is on the other side of the Atlantic with the World's most powerful Navy inbetween, secondly, OTL everyone saw McCarthy's actions as bad form, in fact when McCarthy criticised Attlee's security precautions within the Labour Party it was pointed out that everyone in it was fighting against Communism since the 1920s and that a young Upstart like McC better not tell other people how to do their work. Also the Government at least is aware that the Soviet Networks within the UK have been utterly and totally destroyed with the demise of the Camebridge Five and...certain events around the end of the war. Philby, McLean and the others did the rope dance a long time ago.
Thirdly, what Espionage there is (and there will be some) is going to be investigated behind closed doors as much as possible lest the Civilian population be unduly alarmed. IMO part of the Red Scare in the US was caused by Hoover and his habit of loud and very very public prosecution of suspected and confirmed Soviet Spies. If that doesn't happen or happens away from the public eye then a Red Scare anything like what we know from OTL isn't going to happen.