“BLOCKADE”
I William Dieterle hates war and J I everything connected with it. He j j prefers musicians, scientists, | j nurses, doctors, writers and | j painters as the heroes of the pic- J | tures he directs, and his greatest 1 | successes have been stories with i | such heroes—“ The Life of Louis | i Pasteur,” “Another Dawn” and { ! “The Life of Emile Zola,” which j I last was acclaimed the best film of j I 1937. | Yet when Walter Wanger decid- j 1 ed to make “Blockade,” his ! I romantic drama set against a back- I ( ground of war-torn Spain, which j j co-stars Madeleine Carroll and j | Henry Fonda he chose Dieterle to { ! direct it. For, although the civil ! I strife in contemporary Spain pro- g j vides merely the background of j I the story and the plot is told with- j j out taking sides, it is war that ! ! emerges as the real villain of the j I picture. And Wanger felt that j | Dieterle’s hatred of war made him | | the ideal man to direct a film | ! whose villain was war.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 January 1939, Page 3
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183“BLOCKADE” Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 28 January 1939, Page 3
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