30 Dec Escape
Escape, WWII Movie starring Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer
(1940) What could be more melodramatic than a son who discovers that his mother is being held in a concentration camp and is about to be executed?
According to the review that year by the New York Times: “far and away the most dramatic and hair-raising picture yet made on the sinister subject of persecution in a totalitarian land.”
Hollywood was introducing America in a subtle way (the word Germany was never used) to the horrors of what was happening in Europe. However, this concentration camp looks more like a reform school than an Auschwitz.
America was clueless as to what was yet to come.
Watch movie clips and a trailer at the Turner Classic Movies site.
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