Quite often regular movie viewers complain that some motion pictures -especially documentaries- contain biased propaganda and that these could not be called documentaries because of that. I wish those movie viewers would see this Henry Hathaway film and tell me if this does apply too, especially coming from 20th Century-Fox, one of the major studios that, along with Disney, most persecuted its workers (both actors and technicians) for having ideas leaning towards the Left. Propaganda it is, biased most probably, but I would not say this is not a film. As a matter of fact, it is quite an interesting drama with documentary elements, in spite of its (slanted) narration, but propaganda nonetheless. It even advertises war bonuses in "The End" card. But Hathaway knew his profession and knew how to sugarcoat the pill.
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