![]() ![]() Hitchcock was recruited as a supervising director in which he would uncover Nazi crimes and concentration camps, including segments created by Allied military units from the United States, United Kingdom, and France, as well as the Soviet Union. The unmade Nazi documentary that Hitchcock intended to direct would have been produced in 1945 toward the end of World War II. The most overt World War II anti-Nazi film made by Hitchcock was Notorious which starred Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains, where the formers are spies that are trying to obtain secrets from the latter Nazi leader. Several of Hitchcock’s British-era films from the ‘30s, like The Lady Vanishes and The 39 Steps, allude to international espionage, treason, and an immoral national enemy that hint at Europe’s crisis. ![]() Though Hitchcock never made a movie that explicitly involved World War II or named its primary players, his films of the 1930s and early 1940s carry messages that very obviously touch on the horrible situation in Europe and eventually in the United States.
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