"Combat!" Just for the Record (TV Episode 1963) Poster

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(1963)

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Message from Home
claudio_carvalho23 May 2017
While patrolling abandoned French farmhouses, Sgt. Saunders decides to play a record sent by his mother on a gramophone and is taken prisoner by the Germans. He is sent together with three other prisoners to a truck to Paris. However the vehicle is attacked on the road and the prisoners are released by the French Resistance. The French prisoner Andre Mallott tells that he will drive the trio to Paris to get documents for them to let them flee from Paris. He goes to a tavern expecting to get gasoline but he does not have ration coupon to buy the necessary fuel. A French woman called Annette overhears the conversation and offers coupons provided he transports her to Paris. While heading to Paris, Annette learns that the truck is transporting allied soldiers. When Andre Mallott is killed by the Germans, she drives the truck to the address Mallott gave to Sunders. She is convinced by the resistance to hide one man in her home for a couple of days and Saunders go with her. But soon the German Major Kurt Hoffman, who is her beloved lover, knocks at the door with Saunders hidden in one room. What will happen to them?

"Just for the Record" is a dramatic episode with Saunders missing his family and behaving careless to listen to the record sent by his mother. The French Annette seems to be a collaborator when she meets her lover Kurt, but they indeed love each other. The conclusion is tragic and with no redemption. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Quero Que Saiba" ("I Want you to Know")
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7/10
Short visit in Paris
elo-equipamentos21 April 2017
I saw this series on TCM some years ago but never watched an episode, I wonder if was a good series and when the DVD come out, l've starting watching mainly because Vic Morrow was on it and I'll try find why this series is so long, the plot sumary is when Sgt Saunders (Vic Morrow) was captured by German soldiers and somehow ending in Paris helped by a beauty french woman who hate the war but have a relationship with a German Major, really good series that becomes Vic Morrow famous.
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A tall tale
lor_28 July 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The great French actress Micheline Presle guest stars as a Parisian who has a German soldier for a boyfriend, yet pressed by circumstance agrees to hide Vic from the Nazis, in her apartment. She's quite convincing playing the role of a person looking out only for herself, but gradually showing her humanity underneath.

The Paris setting is unusual for the series, far from the front. She is not a collaborator, but also feels not part of the war, even though she's French. Alf Kjellin plays the German officer she loves and this blond couple deliver engrossing counterpoint to Vic's helpless dilemma, as the story turns on its head the usual (automatic) sympathies for the good guys.

Presle also serves as a romantic interest with Vic, dancing with him, and juggling the two men in a format usually found in a romantic comedy. Kjellin is a defeatist, certain that Germany will soon be defeated, yet another offbeat element of the story.

Kjellin catches Vic in the apartment, making matters most serious, as he's committed to turning him over to the Gestapo. Annette sides with Vic and a iife and death fight ensues. Selfless acts in this story effectively blur the lines between the opposing sides.

Becoming increasingly melodramatic, this segment is a rather extreme departure from the thrust of the series, stretching credibility and concerned with a different aspect of the war than the usual clash between armed forces.
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