The Ramparts We Watch (1940)

Directed by

Louis de Rochemont

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film is about a small American town preparing for a possible war. Made with non-actors from the community, it shows their everyday lives and reactions to the growing threat. The movie uses newsreel-style techniques and includes real Nazi propaganda footage.

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What happens

The Ramparts We Watch is a 1940 American drama film, the first of four full-length features produced by The March of Time, which was much more well known for the series of newsreels they produced from 1935 to 1951. The picture was produced and directed by Louis de Rochemont, from a screenplay by Robert L. Richards and Cedric R. Worth, and was distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, who released it on August 16, 1940. The film used no professional actors, instead relying on residents of the town where most of the filming took place: New London, Connecticut. It also used footage from a Nazi propaganda film, Feuerteufe (Baptism of Fire). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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