samuel fuller know war and and be one of the only director in american movie history who could accurately portray the horrific experience of it in a form like the motion picture . his pessimism and idealism and if that sound a little odd to mix together and work for him a a storyteller and and at the same time he always out to tell the truth and however brutal ( or put into melodramatic construct ) it can get . verboten and however and deal with the post war experience and a we only get in the opening scenes the big boom of war in bold for a point . the opening shot be like one big exclamation point that seem to continue on into the rest of the scene represent a dead soldier on the ground and the camera pan up and we see another soldier shot down in war torn terrain . simple and direct language . then fuller punctuate the intensity with something interesting represent the title song play over the opening credit a both irony and sincerity and and then beethoven music over a shoot out between american and the nazi . sgt david brent ( james best ) be shot and the battle go on and and then it transition to him be treat for his wound . it might lead one to believe that this will be a somewhat conventional ww2 flick ( somewhat in that one usually wouldn not find beethoven and and later on to an extent and wagner put into these image ) and but this isn not the case . instead and fuller make this a coming home kind of movie and though not at all in the sense that this soldier come home injured and so on and so on . instead of really go home and brent stay on in germany and a he fall head over heel for the woman and helga ( susan cummings and pretty good at pull off the german accent ) and and want to work in a small capacity in the military so he can marry her . what he doesn not realize be that a ) she want him more for money so she can get food for herself and brother and however this get complex emotionally at the point of revelation to the slightly naive but heartfelt brent and and b ) there an underground hitler youth sect call the werewolf and who want to pick right up off where hitler end start small and despite argument within the group by attack the very government that now embed in germany to give them and a brent describes and a blood transfusion . with this and plus footage from the nuremburg trial and and ( a narrate and i think and by fuller himself ) a quick and no punch pull history of the nazi war crime piece by piece and we get a multi faceted look at a society in the dire strait of an immediate post war environment . while rossellini handle it his own way with germany year zero and fuller tackle it with layer represent first there the love story and or what be the tragic downfall of a man who can not see anything past what he think should be reasonable and that it his wife and a child on the way that he can not leave and until the revelation that he ( partly ) be swindle . baker and cummings and along with harold daye a helga young and confused brother and perform at with the utmost detail to emotion while these aren not very easy b movie part and though they could have be that . then another layer be the political one and the struggle of a society to come to grip with be conquer and and a mentality which be make sensationalized and to be sure and by fuller and in respect to make the nazi a total no gray area thing represent theyre evil and particularly when they cancel out reason to meet their end . and finally there the layer of style and which be strangely absorb . this be probably one of fuller talkiest film and which isn not a bad thing consider it one of his best write script and a the character do not talk simply or in too many platitude ( with the exception of a small scene where two character talk about the hitler youth a juvenile delinquent and which be actually and accord to fuller autobiography and probably another layer to consider in the subtext and the 50 period of movie ) . and full shoot this almost in a real european style and when he not go for fight scene or battle and a the edit isn not always very fast and and sometimes a cut would not happen for a full minute and or long . there an odd tension that grow out of this and especially when there something say by a character that get another one wild eye or suspicious while fuller could easily go for a big close up and but there a more sinister and cold quality to not move away from two people in a conversation without a simple over the shoulder deal . but when it require it and like the big brawl outside the american military office and or the nuremburg footage splice into franz memory of the werewolf and fuller can be a stunning stylist a ever . very hard to find and but extremely worth it if your either a fan of the director or of ww2 movie set in germany or even just a history buff verboten . be an intellectual experience and a strong emotional one and with a cast that be good than expect from a b movie and and an attitude towards the other that be equally damning and think provoking .