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Blockade (1938) (DVD) |
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Blockade (1938)
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Hollywood's first earnest attempt to treat the Spanish Civil War is a deeply silly movie. There are few spectacles more forlorn than a film eager to be perceived as courageous, just not at the cost of having courage. Blockade strikes a radical pose. There's lots of rhetoric about getting "beyond flags and slogans"; "the people" keep forming up as a Spanish Greek chorus; director William Dieterle, besides borrowing blatantly from Potemkin in one scene, hazards a shift into direct address with anguished peasant-warrior Henry Fonda suddenly getting in our collective face to ask, "Where's the conscience of the world?!" Yet even though card-carrying leftist John Howard Lawson wrote it, Blockade neither takes nor identifies any political position. No one is fascist or communist or loyalist--there's just "The Enemy." The viewer will be hard-pressed to tell what is going on. Or to care. --Richard T. Jameson
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The screen explodes with action and romance in this war-torn drama starring Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath) as the passionate, courageous Marco, a peasant farmer determined to protect his land from invading soldiers. The gorgeous Madeleine Carroll (The 39 Steps) is Norma, the daredevil spy whose heart he captures. With gunfire thundering around them, they struggle against a powerful enemy blockade preventing the delivery of desperately needed food in a fiery battle that could change the course of the war. Bravely focusing on the controversial Spanish Civil War, "Blockade" bravely tackles a subject Hollywood had refused to touch, resulting in pressure on the producer to leave the film unreleased. Ultimately it was recognized with Oscar nominations for writing and score and still stands today as a career high point for all involved.
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