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Menaces (1939) Edmond Greville; Mireille Balin, Erich von Stroheim

Menaces (1939) Edmond Greville; Mireille Balin, Erich von Stroheim

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This is a region-free DVD-R without case or artwork.In French with English subtitles.Menaces (Threats) was originally filmed in 1938 under the title Cinq Jours d'Angoise. Thanks to a studio fire, the release of the film was held up for nearly two years, by which time its "rumors of war" subtext had taken on a new topicality. John Loder and Mireille Balin star as, respectively, a British newspaperman and his French fiancee. During the Munich crisis, Loder and Balin decide to take refuge in a Parisian hotel until they're certain that war will not break out. The other hotel guests include Austrian professor Erich von Stroheim, whose hopes of becoming a French citizen are dashed by the growing animosity against all things Teutonic.

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Carl Hinrichs from Fleetwood, PA United States
April 30, 2020
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The original Edmond Greville film is a brilliant character study of the residents of a cosmopolitan hotel and a merciless indictment of French war mongers and of war.The subsequent desecration of this film years later by the French is beyond belief.First a ludicrous preface is attached to the beginning of the film.At the end of the film after Erich Von Stroheim's suicide an inane letter is shown w
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Kathleen Montgomery from Vista, CA United States
September 6, 2014
Menaces (1939)
Perfect transaction. Very nice print of a rare title.
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