Saturday, October 5, 2013

The Man I Married



Finally Available for DVD on Demand
I regularly searched for this movie only to find that it was not available. Twentieth Century Fox finally released it as a DVD Burn on Demand. As with the previous Universal and Fox Vault Series, the film was excellent quality and there is little evidence that this disk was anything other than a store-bought DVD.

THE MAN I MARRIED was way ahead of its time. It accurately portrayed, albeit with some Hollywood Nazi stereotyping, the situation in Germany prior to the outbreak of World War Two. The movie essentially nailed many of the lesser known facts about life in Nazi Germany that are common historic knowledge now, but would have been obscure to a non-German outsider at the time. For example, during one scene there is dialogue about the German Volkswagen and the savings program designed to enable Germans to buy one.

SPOILER ALERT: The film takes place largely in 1938 Berlin. Joan Bennett portrays Carol Hoffman, a successful publication executive who...

The Man I Married
Very well written movie about a German Citizen returning to Germany with his American Wife and he falls under the spell of the pre-war Nazification only to discover too late that he cannot be a part of the new Germany.

The Man I married
The item came in quite good condition except it kept "sticking" I kept cleaning and cleaning the disc, eventually it played. A good movie but the end was very dissapointing, I realize this has nothing to do with you. I notice that some of these movies from America have trouble playing as they keep on sticking. Best Regards Carol x

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