Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

lorenzoestevez Richard Basehart delivers a great performance, the psychological analysis within the film is at moments hilarious... I enjoy all these old Hitler films and this one is well worth watching ...

bkoganbing The character of Adolph Hitler will fascinate historians for more than the thousand years he wanted his Reich to last and for psychiatrists even more than that. The folks who are schooled in both disciplines get something to analyze with this film Hitler and Richard Basehart's performance in the title role. As for performance the reason for Hitler being the nasty dude that he was that the Fuehrer was a dud in the bedroom. That was something Geli Raubel played by Cordula Tantrow said and signs her death warrant in saying same. In fact she more than hints at the reason, possible incest with his mother. Something that Hitler himself would reject after all psychiatry was simply "Jew science".Eva Braun portrayed here by Maria Emo is another ill defined role. If we believe Albert Speer's memoir Eva was basically a nice girl without a political thought in her head, but was simply a power groupie and a celibate one at that.Such familiar faces as Hogan's Heroes Sgt.Schultz played by John Banner is Gregor Strasser, John Mitchum is Hermann Goering, and the obligatory Martin Kosleck is Joseph Goebbels. Berry Kroeger is Ernst Roehm with barely a hint of the homosexuality that later offended Hitler so mightily after when he had to make a deal with the army. The Code was still in place, but you'll spot it in the film.Richard Basehart gives a sincere portrayal of Hitler. But the film is badly written and directed.

tbvanslyke Technically atrocious and hysterically inaccurate in almost all ways. Events maddeningly out of order... characters come and go almost randomly. Not a single character plays out realistically... from Basehart's histrionics to the actress who plays Eva Braun with strange stoicism which was not her primary characteristic. Even Martin Kosleck -- an otherwise talented actor -- plays Goebbles strangely and with an odd sense of sympathy, which was assuredly not a trait he had. It's not as if we don't know what occurred, but apparently the writer didn't have a clue.Inexcusable garbage, created by a hack director and the remnants of Monogram Studios in the guise of Allied Artists, though released through Warner Bros.

Robert J. Maxwell I have to draw a distinction between aesthetic properties and informative values when it comes to this movie.On the one hand, looking at the movie from an educational point of view, it may be of genuine value. Surveys consistently find that Americans, especially young Americans, are a people without history. Focus groups following the release of "Pearl Harbor" ten years ago discovered that an alarming percentage of the intended audience thought that John F. Kennedy was president when the attack occurred. A student at a famous Midwestern university complimented Barbara Tuchman for her lecture of the origins of World War I because he'd "always wondered why the other was called World War II." A survey done in 2010 found that one in five Americans didn't know which country the United States had won its independence from. I could go on but won't. I'll conclude by saying that for far too many of us, this movie, which identifies the guy named Adolf Hitler and suggests the role he played in the story of the 20th century, is invaluable.Now, as a polished piece of movie making, it's plain terrible. First, Richard Basehart is badly miscast. But then anyone would have been miscast in trying to play a figure from a patriotic cartoon in 1943. There is no "character arc." Hitler begins as a scowling, trigger-tempered character who berates everyone around him, lusts openly to dominate the world, and is beset by indistinct but definite Freudian problems that he steadfastly denies. The only time he smiles -- rather than smirks -- is at the end, when he is completely loony and is ordering divisions around on a map after he's been told they don't exist.There really isn't much about his conduct of the war. It's more about his inability to love and his paranoia with regard to subordinates. Here's an example of what I mean.He enters the office of his personal physician and asks gruffly, "So how is your patient today?" "You look pale. The fight with Hindenberg must have been strenuous. Are you still suffering from the headaches?" "I'm not HERE to talk about THAT!" Some of the material is highly conjectural. Hitler develops an affection for his niece, Geli, and when he fails in his attempt to make love to her, she threatens to let the world know that he is not a real man. This is a big mistake on Geli's part. It's also a big mistake on the part of Adolf. Anybody who is physically unable to get it on with the lovely, sixteen-year-old Cordula Trantow, who has scarcely lost her pubescent chubbiness, is in serious hormonal trouble.But the movie denies Hitler any sign of humanity. (His beloved German shepherd, Blondi, never appears.) He has Geli murdered. He tolerates the presence of Eva Braun only because of her loyalty to him. It's not clear whether he ever gets it on with Eva Braun or not. I think, that if the mores of the time had permitted it, the movie would have given us a homosexual Hitler. As it is, his intolerance for smoking is ridiculed and it's mentioned that he eats nothing but vegetables -- not like a real man, who prefers his meat ripped from the quivering flank of the nearest antelope.The movie is a trembling and insane wreck, rather like Himself after the assassination attempt. Yet I urge everyone under the age of forty to see it. It will help them to distinguish between Hitler and Charlie Chaplin, if they should ever hear of Charlie Chaplin.