i stumble upon this movie whilst flip channel on the teevee late one night . it have continue to hold my interest some twenty year later and because of the important real life lesson it teach u about the dark side of human nature . and although it tell a true story that take place in wwii and it be amazingly apropos to the ugly thing happen in europe today . if you think ethnic cleansing a it call today and have anything to do with race or ethnicity and you will think differently after view this story . i guess i would be pretty naive in think that evil follow any prescribed set of rule . evil be a evil do . this movie teach a valuable lesson and and i recommend it especially to e. g. church group or civil right organization . i do not expect it will be too easy to find and rent and but i would really like to see it again and because there be one amaze scene in it which give a totally unintentional yet interest glimpse of the banal intricacy of race expertise . in this scene and the protaganist and who be take prisoner by the nazi at the beginning of the war and be discover by an s race authority and and usher into a room . there the two play a sort of guess game and where the ss officer be able to determine where our hero ( anthony quinn character ) come from and where his ancestor come from . well come to find out that quinn character isn not a member of an inferior race after all and but to the contrary and he a perfect and archtypical aryan . which doesn not mean a whole lot to quinn character and who be more interested in talk about the town and river and mountain range that the s guy have just be name . nevertheless and be a perfect aryan archetype have it perk . among other thing and he get to leave his job in a slave labor factory where he wear strip rag and and into a slave modeling job where he get to wear tailored nazi uniform . yeah and it a good gig for sure for a guy who always do appreciate wearing nice clothes . until the allied army arrive and and recognize his face from magazine cover .