Reviews

This story U-boat commander Conrad Veidt plotting an attack on the British fleet during WWI is well-paced and dramatically photographed. Best-remembered as the first collaboration between director Michael Powell and screenwriter Emeric Pressburger, this has the style and substance of material that master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock would have been attracted to. There is a tragic quality to the final moments as Veidt realizes he is doomed, and this is led even greater poignancy by the knowledge that three weeks after this film was released, Great Britain would once again be at war with Germany. War is all hell.

There is nothing groundbreaking about this story of washed-up ballplayer Lloyd Nolan taking charge of the Brooklyn Dodgers only to fall in love with the beautiful heiress who co-owns the team, Carole Landis. The inevitability of a happy ending is never in doubt, but this is a pleasant way to spend 90 minutes of free time nonetheless. Use of game footage from actual Dodger games in 1941 adds immediacy and authenticity, and makes the film worth a look for the sake of posterity.