{"id":16143,"date":"2024-02-03T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16143"},"modified":"2024-02-03T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T20:00:50","slug":"verboten-dogface-1959-samuel-fuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16143","title":{"rendered":"Verboten! &#038; Dogface (1959, Samuel Fuller)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Verboten!<\/em> (1959)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fuller WWII film six months before <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8145\">The Crimson Kimono<\/a><\/em> with a Paul Anka theme song (oh no), starring nobody in particular.  Our not-so-bright hero Sgt. Brent is <em>The Killer Shrews<\/em> star James Best.  He survives the sniper attack that killed a bunch of his men, is rescued by German girl Susan Cummings (Bavarian, of Corman&#8217;s <em>Swamp Women<\/em>), then stays behind after the war to marry her.<\/p>\n<p>Post-war, Brent works for Captain Harvey (Fuller regular Paul Dubov, a master criminal in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4583\">Underworld USA<\/a><\/em>) in cleanup, along with wide-mouthed Bruno (star of <em>High School Big Shot<\/em>), his new wife&#8217;s secret confidant and a member of the Werewolves, a secret Himmler youth army aiming to carry on the war after defeat.  &#8220;Hungry people are easy to bamboozle.&#8221;  Susan&#8217;s little brother Franz (not great) is of course a werewolf, but comes to his senses, rats on his mates and pummels his werewolf boss to a fiery death.  &#8220;Ride of the Valkyries&#8221; soundtracks a bombing\/assassination montage twenty years before <em>Apocalypse Now<\/em>.  The cuts to stock footage are hardly seamless but all the postwar Germany film is interesting on its own.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/verboten1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/verboten2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Dogface<\/em> (1959)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Siegfried has located the enemy&#8221; &#8211; the nazis send a dog to locate dogfaces, and Infantry Sergeant Rock&#8217;s first mission in this would-be TV series is to assassinate the nazi dog.  I imagine network TV execs weren&#8217;t on the edge of their seats wondering what unseemly missions Rock would take on next.  Good movie though, better than <em>Verboten!<\/em>.  Our lunkhead hero injures the dog but lets it live, and it saves him after a steamy shower shootout.  The plan was an authentic war series with basic tech, tough-guy actors, and a ton of military slang &#8211; since this never aired, Sgt. Rock&#8217;s career went nowhere.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/dogface.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verboten! (1959) Fuller WWII film six months before The Crimson Kimono with a Paul Anka theme song (oh no), starring nobody in particular. Our not-so-bright hero Sgt. Brent is The Killer Shrews star James Best. He survives the sniper attack that killed a bunch of his men, is rescued by German girl Susan Cummings (Bavarian, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,825,1313,248,112,472],"class_list":["post-16143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-dog","tag-double-feature","tag-nazis","tag-samuel-fuller","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16197,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16143\/revisions\/16197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}