Verboten! (1959)

Directed by

Samuel Fuller

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 25 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A German woman and an American soldier fall in love after World War II ends in occupied Germany. They struggle with the lingering hatred and violence between the defeated Germans and their American conquerors.

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What happens

Verboten! is a 1959 American romantic war drama film written, produced, and directed by Samuel Fuller and starring James Best, Susan Cummings, Tom Pittman, and Harold Daye. It was the last film of the influential but troubled RKO Radio Pictures studio, which co-produced it with Fuller's own Globe Enterprises. It was filmed at the RKO Forty Acres backlot. Distribution was handled by Columbia Pictures. Verboten! was the first of Samuel Fuller's films to be set during World War II, of which he was a veteran. He had previously drawn on his war experience to make movies about the Korean War and the French Indochina War. Raymond Harvey was the film's technical adviser; he had previously worked with Fuller on his Fixed Bayonets! (1951). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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