The Poverty Row Studios Acted Quickly with a Call-To-Arms and did Their Bit to Help Awaken the Sleeping Giant Nation after Japan Rang the Alarm Bell.
Edgar G. Ulmer, now Considered an Influential Author/Director of Any-Budget, Any-Time.
Crafting Out of Seemingly Nothing, Movies that were Poetic Constructions that Entertained Movie-Goers for Decades.
In this Counter-Punch to 12-7-1941, He took $19,000 and Manufactured a Movie that is upon Deep-Reflection much Better than is Given Credit.
While the Acting is Lethargic with Slowly-Paced Dialog and Pauses and tends to Drag, the Film Surprises with Alarming Sound-Effects and Quick-Cutting the Action.
Both of these Types of Flourishes, so Prevalent Today, were Uncommon in 1942.
It Uses Vibrating Sound and Rapid-Editing to Enhance the Film's Lack of Budget and Ulmer Spiced it Up with Inexpensive Creativity.
Slightly Above Average within its Peer-Group, it was an Early Effort for Movies and the War-Time Production of Patriotic Pictures Issued to Inspire.
The Ending is Down-Beat and Sacrificial, but the Message is Clear even to a Pacifist.
Gertrude Michael to Alan Baxter...and American Audiences
"We must fight...Everyone must fight"
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