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This Land is Mine (1943) [Re-UP]

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Date: 28 May 2015 15:11:00
This Land is Mine (1943) [Re-UP]

This Land is Mine (1943)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:43:07 | 4,36 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Drama, War

Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders

Charles Laughton had a unique ability to reflect the mores of any period in time. In this movie he was reflecting the moral choices faced by a country occupied by the Nazi invasion. It's set in France during the nazi occupation, but the messages of truth, freedom and courage are timeless and universal. The monologue delivered by Laughton at the end must be one of the singular most outstanding scenes ever filmed.

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Blatant anti-Nazi propaganda film is strangely affecting due to Dudley Nichol’s intricate plot machinations, his often moving dialogue, and Jean Renoir’s mature direction which seemed to push the actors into transcending what could easily have been straightforward, morally conflicted characters in an occupied township during WWII.

This Land is Mine (1943) [Re-UP]

Although set ‘somewhere in Europe’ where everyone speaks swell American English and the signage is equally Anglo, This Land is Mine is a moral tale where cowards can find inner confidence and fight against tyranny, eroding the power of occupiers, and in the words of hero / ex-coward Albery Lory (Charles Laughton), narrow the period of misery until a people are free again to determine their own fate.

This Land is Mine (1943) [Re-UP]

Lory’s world is turned upside down when his simple life of teaching a rowdy class, harboring feelings for hot colleague Louise Martin (Maureen O’Hara), and devoting the rest of his day to an overbearing mother (Una O’Connor) are upset by the actions of a saboteur who takes Lory into his confidence. Lory is a closet hero – he just can’t burn the secret newsletters slipped under his front door bearing the header “Liberty” – but the mounting injustices start to really irk, particularly when the school’s Jewish principal is arrested for a recent train derailment. Lory also puts a stop to the class’s anti-Semitic harassment of the principal’s son, and eventually expresses his devotion towards Louise when she breaks off her long-running engagement with town industrialist George Lambert (George Sanders).

This Land is Mine (1943) [Re-UP]

When a saboteur is killed, Lory inadvertently becomes a pariah, and later a murder suspect, and just as he’s given a way out of a dire situation, he realizes there’s a high moral calling which he can’t deny, and virtually sacrifices himself to martial other closet heroes into the town’s anti-Nazi movement.

This Land is Mine (1943) [Re-UP]

Nichols and Renoir laid out some very unique boundaries in their drama: the term “Nazi” is never uttered, nor are there heavy swastika banners filling the screen; the villain is clearly branded German. Unlike similar propaganda efforts such as Uncertain Glory (1944), Mine puts a nation on trial rather than a regime, with leader Major Erich von Keller (Walter Slezak) representing the articulate, cultured, and manipulative character of Germans at large, be they in Europe or the United States. (Slezak would create a similarly resourceful Nazi character in Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat a year later.)

This Land is Mine (1943) [Re-UP]

It’s a stance not unlike the anti-Japanese films of the period, but von Keller isn’t a shouting, death-happy Hun: early in the film Nichols shows him to be more of a bureaucrat who just wants to keep things peaceful; he fully champions the art of collaboration, and curries relationships with town officials and industrialists to ensure there’s minimal conflict. And yet he also loathes Jews, which the script doesn’t hide, but instead of spouting anti-Semitic vitriol, von Keller regards them as more annoying than generic saboteurs.

This Land is Mine (1943) [Re-UP]

Instead of threatening locals, he seeks out and rewards collaborators, and while Lory stews in his jail cell, presents arguments and options designed to sway Lory to his side by thinking of his life. Those who’ve been corrupted – the Mayor, the butcher and (yup) the baker – are singled out by Lory in its lengthy, literate, and brilliantly contrived argument to the jury, and whether he’s acquitted or convicted, he’s a dead man for speaking freely in a forum that’s deliberately been left untouched by the Nazis.

This Land is Mine (1943) [Re-UP]

Mine is pure propaganda, but it’s also damn effective drama because audiences will bond with the characters and see the Germans as Generic Oppressors, making the film relevant to any country occupied and brutalized by an invading force. Aside from Nichols’ excellent (if not slightly verbose) script, there’s the casting against type: Sanders plays a nervous, virtually sycophantic collaborationist that goes against his usual screen personal of an arrogant, over-confident shit; bland Kent Smith is effective as Louise’s supposedly amoral brother; Una O’Connor (The Invisible Man) dials down her standard histrionics and manages to render Lory’s doting mother into a sympathetic monster; and Laughton is wonderful to watch, slowly evolving from an awkward, unsociable teacher to a man high on pride and self-sacrifice.
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This Land is Mine (1943) [Re-UP]

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