In England, Michael Powell's "49th Parallel" and Leslie Howard's "Pimpernel Smith" are effective statements about the fight against Nazism...
In "Thunder Rock," adapted from a play by Robert Audrey, an anti-fascist journalist in Canada (Michael Redgrave) fails in his political movement because of the greed and avarice of his Fleet Street fellow workers and the self-satisfaction of the public...
He retires to an isolated lighthouse on lake Michigan, in disgust with the world of the thirties...
The lighthouse rock sustains a commemorative tablet to a group of European immigrants whose ship sank off-shore during a storm a century before...
As the weeks turn into months, the professional writer begins to imagine the ghosts of the dead names appearing before him, each telling their tale of sorrow, of escaping, of seeking a new life...
In the end he decides he has no cause to complain, and that it is his duty to keep on fighting, even if only for the sake of the dead he has conjured up...
The film (photographed in black and white) is intriguing, strongly imaginative, very well acted and presented...
In "Thunder Rock," adapted from a play by Robert Audrey, an anti-fascist journalist in Canada (Michael Redgrave) fails in his political movement because of the greed and avarice of his Fleet Street fellow workers and the self-satisfaction of the public...
He retires to an isolated lighthouse on lake Michigan, in disgust with the world of the thirties...
The lighthouse rock sustains a commemorative tablet to a group of European immigrants whose ship sank off-shore during a storm a century before...
As the weeks turn into months, the professional writer begins to imagine the ghosts of the dead names appearing before him, each telling their tale of sorrow, of escaping, of seeking a new life...
In the end he decides he has no cause to complain, and that it is his duty to keep on fighting, even if only for the sake of the dead he has conjured up...
The film (photographed in black and white) is intriguing, strongly imaginative, very well acted and presented...