Hitler's Madman (MOD) "Candles"

Hitler's Madman (MOD) "Candles"Douglas Sirk (All That Heaven Allows) makes his American directorial debut in this powerful wartime thriller starring John Carradine, Alan Curtis and Patricia Morison. Parachuting near the occupied village of Lidice, Czech soldier Karel Vavra (Curtis) recruits saboteurs in the fight against the Nazis. Determined to end the resistance, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich (Carradine) murders priests, closes schools and forces the female students to

Gene Krupa and his band keep everyone in the swing

and a judge whose oversight may be challenged by his career interests clash in ways subtle

so much so that she hatches a desperate scheme to pull Dan out of the long dark night of his soul

Whether he's getting confused with a dragon by a clan of medievalist monster fighters

Hatched years ago during the icy Stalin era

as Lomax faces the intense seduction of success and money

and a passel of angry folks is in pursuit

Three families in a hardscrabble farming community in Maine see their lives intertwine over the course of a year in this heartfelt drama adapted from Gladys Hasty Carroll's best-selling debut novel

Ivan Reitman

Three camel-riding Arabs - played in a capricious bit of casting by Anthony Caruso

And a rising body count

before censors of the day demanded the elimination of several scenes