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robertajpottslaw-71-350393 Summary: Patriotic But not Soapy *** This review may contain spoilers ***This is the story of twins who may have looked identical and grown up in the same household in pre-WWII Germany, but who are worlds apart, well, in just about everything. One immigrated to America while the other remained in Germany to serve the Nazis. While Otto was kind and caring, loving his adopted country, Hugo was more than eager to carry out Nazi plans to sabotage American interests. It must have been amazingly difficult to produce a movie which shows true patriotism without making the moviegoer roll his eyes. Somehow, most of us seem to have been programmed against such films. But this film was patriotic without being soapy. SPOILER ALERT: The last scene tore at my heart. Okay, the music in the scene was a little too much, but if you'll mute your TV and watch the look on Veidt's face when on the way to his death he sees the Statue of Liberty, well, it made me remember that America really is worth fighting for. I needed to see that movie. Perhaps you need to as well. And how ironic. Conrad Veidt had few opportunities to play anything other than an evil Nazi (this film being one of them). And yet all the while, most of his paychecks were spent to support the allies against the forces of his own native land, Germany! As I read a little about Veidt after watching the movie, I wondered if perhaps this film was the only real opportunity the man ever had as an actor to display his incredibly strong love of freedom.

blanche-2 Conrad Veidt plays twins, one good, one evil, in "Nazi Agent," a 1942 film directed by Jules Dassin. Veidt plays Otto Becker, a bookstore owner, and his twin brother, Baron Hugo von Detner, who heads up the German consulate in the U.S. Hugo wants to use Otto's bookstore as a message drop for his agents. Otto is in the country illegally, so with Hugo hanging this over his head, he has to go along. When a fight ensues between the two, Hugo is killed. Otto takes his place in the consulate and as head of the spy ring.Veidt is very good in both roles, that of a sweet, generous man, and the usual Veidt persona - a cold, authoritarian, but charming Nazi.The supporting cast includes Ann Ayars, Dorothy Tree, Frank Reicher, and Martin Kosleck.Entertaining. I did wonder about why Otto made the decision that he did at the end of the film, though.

LCShackley Jules Dassin already shows great flair in his first full-length feature film. From the opening montage, you know you're in the hands of a director who has a strong visual and dramatic sense.Conrad Veidt does double duty as two contrasting characters, and pulls it off with aplomb. The supporting cast is also strong.However, NAZI AGENT suffers from a hackneyed and completely implausible script. It relies heavily on coincidence, and on what Roger Ebert would call an "idiot plot." (That's a plot that would unravel early on if even one character would behave logically...in this case, Otto Becker.) The first 20 minutes or so is promising. Even later in the movie there are some nice ideas and plenty of tension. But the overall idiocy of the central concept spoils the effect.Do you believe that a humble old stamp dealer has enough makeup in his office to turn himself into a different character on the spur of the moment, while thugs wait at the bottom of the stairs? Do you believe that anyone would blindly assume the character of a man without having the faintest clue about his job, his colleagues, or who and what he might be expected to know and do? Or that a meek-mannered little man can successfully pose as a cold-blooded Nazi? If you can believe all this, you'll probably give NAZI AGENT a ten.

lastliberal I saw that there was a couple of Nazi films on TNT last night and decided to give them a viewing. Sometimes these old black and whites can really have interesting stories. This was true to my expectations.This was a Jules Dassin film. He was one of the most important directors in post-WWII America. Unfortunately he got caught up in the Red Scare led by Senator McCarthy and was blacklisted. he moved to Europe, where he continued to make movies.His most influential film was the heist movie Rififi, which inspired a genre of movies including Ocean's Eleven and Mission: Impossible.The movie stars Conrad Veidt, who is himself a very interesting character. Most movie goers would remember him as Gestapo Maj. Strasser in the classic Casablanca. This is interesting because he was a staunch anti-Nazi who was himself chased out of Germany under threat of assassination. He was to play Dracula in 1931, but Bela Lugosi got the job. His performance in The Man Who Laughs, was used as the basis for "The Joker" in the early Batman.Veidt give a good performance as a twin whose brother is a Nazi agent. he kills him and takes his place to fight against the Nazi underground in America.It is not a terribly exciting film, but it was suspenseful, and a chance to see one of the great American directors and a great German/British actor.