Hitler – Beast of Berlin

Hitler, Beast of Berlin
Film poster
Directed by	Sam Newfield (as Sherman Scott)
Written by	Fred Myton
Produced by	Producers Releasing Corporation
Starring	Roland Drew Steffi Duna Greta Granstedt Alan Ladd
Music by	David Chudnow
Distributed by	Producers Releasing Corporation
Release date	October 8, 1939 (1939-10-08)
Running time	87 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$100,000

Hitler, Beast of Berlin (1939) was one of the most popular "hiss and boo" films of the World War II era, based on the novel Goose Step by Shepard Traube. The film was the first production of Producers Releasing Corporation. It was recut and released as Beasts of Berlin the same year, having been banned in New York as too inflammatory at the time. It was also reissued in the early 1940s as Hell's Devils.

Plot

A man and his wife lead a German anti-Nazi propaganda literature movement. After an inadvertent betrayal, the husband is thrown into a concentration camp, from which he escapes to Switzerland.

Cast

Roland Drew ... Hans Memling
Steffi Duna ... Elsa Memling
Greta Granstedt ... Anna Wahl
Alan Ladd ... Karl Bach (as Allan Ladd)
Lucien Prival ... Sachs
Vernon Dent ...Lustig
John Ellis ... Gustav Schultz
George Rosener ... Wunderlich
Bodil Rosing ... Frau Kohler
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski ... Storm Trooper Albert Stalhelm
Willy Kaufman ... Herr Kohler
Hans Joby ... Hermann Lippert
Frederick Giermann ... Father Pommer
Crane Whitley ... Klee (as Clem Wilenchick)
Henry Zynda ... Erlich (as Henry von Zynda)

Production notes

Archival footage of Adolf Hitler is included.

Release

The film was released in 1940 as Goose Step.^[1]

References

^ 'Goose Step' Begins Run Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) [Los Angeles, Calif] 03 Feb 1940: A7.

External links

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