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Parole Fixer (1940) – action drama crime film based on the 1938 book called Persons in Hiding, an exposé of corruption within the American parole system [25] Pastor Hall (1940) – British drama film based on the true story of the German pastor Martin Niemöller who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticizing the Nazi Party [26]
The Howard Hawks film To Have and Have Not is set in Vichy government controlled-Martinique in the summer of 1940. [citation needed] In the 1980 Robert R. McCammon novel The Night Boat, a German submarine is sunk soon after shelling a Caribbean island. Its crew remains trapped aboard the submarine, kept alive by a voodoo curse, until an ...
Prison film [33] The Devil Thumbs a Ride: Felix E. Feist: Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie: United States [34] Kiss of Death: Henry Hathaway: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray: United States: Crime thriller [35] The Long Night: Anatole Litvak: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price: United States: Crime drama [36 ...
1940 The Daughter of the Green Pirate: Italy Enrico Guazzoni: Doris Duranti, Fosco Giachetti: Based on the sequel novels of The Black Corsair: The Sea Hawk: United States Michael Curtiz: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains: Set in the Elizabethan era, but unlike the novel The Sea Hawk it is set in the Caribbean Sea 1942 The Black Swan ...
On 12 August 1942, 300 American prisoners arrived on two transport ships, survivors of the Battle of Bataan and the Battle of Corregidor. They were interned in the old Philippine Constabulary barracks, referred to as Palawan's Prison Camp 10A, or Palawan Barracks. They would spend the next two years clearing an area 2,400 by 225 yards (2,195 by ...
War photographers need not necessarily work near active fighting; instead they may document the aftermath of conflict. The German photographer Frauke Eigen created a photographic exhibition about war crimes in Kosovo which focused on the clothing and belongings of the victims of ethnic cleansing, rather than on their corpses. [38]
Film of mass shootings at Liepāja (This is a short film about 1.5 minutes long, taken of a July or August 1941 shooting by a German soldier, Richard Wiener.) (in German) Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematographie des Holocaust (describes in detail the provenance and contents of the Reinhard Wiener film of the July or August 1941 shooting at Liepāja)
Conveniently, American naval and military aviation missions arrived in Colombia in January 1939. The United States and Colombia also began a series of consultations on the defense of the Panama Canal. After the Fall of France in 1940, the need for cooperation became more urgent. In September, the two countries began to work out agreements for a ...