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The Master Race is a 1944 American drama film directed by Herbert Biberman and written by Biberman, Anne Froelich and Rowland Leigh. The film stars George Coulouris, Stanley Ridges, Osa Massen, Carl Esmond, Nancy Gates, Morris Carnovsky, Lloyd Bridges, Helen Beverly, Gavin Muir and Paul Guilfoyle.
Acknowledging the inevitable defeat of the Third Reich's plan for world domination, the plot has a fanatical hard-core band of Germans preparing for the rise of a Fourth Reich by infiltrating a rural Belgian village to foment racial hatred and pave the way for a "master race" supremacy over the lesser "mongrel" races.
Completed soon after D-Day, this film envisions swift defeat of Nazi Germany; a large coterie of Nazi officers go into hiding to promote their ideology in postwar Europe. Their leader, Colonel Von Beck, under a false identity, sets out to promote hatred and divisiveness in the bombed Belgian village of Kolar...
A disguised Nazi officer (George Coulouris) spreads hate in a Belgian town overseen by a U.S. major (Stanley Ridges).
- Herbert J. Biberman
- Drama
- George Coulouris
Sep 10, 2012 · The Master Race. Monday 10 September 2012. Written by CPe. Time Out says. This wordy curiosity, made after D-Day in anticipation of a swift end to the war, serves mostly as a propaganda vehicle...
Biberman's film annoys by patting itself on the back for stating the obvious about the Nazi monsters. Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jul 19, 2005. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is...
When allied troops liberate a small battle-scarred Belgium town in 1944 the American and British commanders do all they can to help the war-weary people back on their feet. There are mental and physical wounds to heal, fields to plough, the church to rebuild.
