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Blockade

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A Nationalist soldier (Henry Fonda) falls for a blond mercenary spy (Madeleine Carroll) during the Spanish Civil War.
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Otis Ferguson The New Republic 05/08/2024
In the case of Walter Wanger’s production of William Dieterle’s direction of John Howard Lawson’s script, there is achieved a deadly numb level of shameless hokum out of which anything true or decent rises for a second only to confound itself. Go to Full Review Ann Ross Maclean's Magazine 07/22/2019
On the surface it is a good, excitingly handled spy film. But underneath the narrative it presents an eloquent and brilliantly pictorialized plea against modern warfare. Go to Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 06/19/2009
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Set against the Spanish Civil War, Blockade was one of Hollywood's first anti-fascist dramas, which back in 1938, was considered a bold act; director Dieterle's future career suffered because of the film's politics. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D 03/13/2024 I didn't think there was much there. See more 12/22/2017 Effective Hollywood attempt to show the struggle of the innocent victims during the Spanish Civil War; Fonda and Carroll make a glamorous romantic duo. See more 01/05/2016 An interesting but somewhat confusing story of the Spanish Civil War. Norma, a Russian Spy, is on a mission to support Stalin's pincer move to surround Europe in the late 1930s. She sees the resulting horrors and joins Fonda in the Nationalist effort to resist. Fonda's final cry for the world's help presaged events in Europe but, tragically, did nothing for China who suffered 50 to 80 million murders upon Communist conquest. See more 09/02/2014 one of the few hollywood pix to deal with spanish civil war See more 02/13/2013 Proof that not all movies from the Hollywood Golden Age were classics. Over emphatic and artificial with an overwrought performance from Henry Fonda. Madeleine Carroll is beautiful but her part doesn't make a lot of sense. See more 09/03/2008 pretty good fare for B stuff See more Read all reviews
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William Dieterle

Director

Madeleine Carroll

Norma

Henry Fonda

Marco

Leo Carrillo

Luis

John Halliday

Andre Gallinet

Vladimir Sokoloff

Basil
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Movie Info

Synopsis A Nationalist soldier (Henry Fonda) falls for a blond mercenary spy (Madeleine Carroll) during the Spanish Civil War.
Director
William Dieterle
Producer
Walter Wanger
Screenwriter
John Howard Lawson
Distributor
United Artists
Production Co
Walter Wanger Productions, Inc.
Genre
Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 17, 1938, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
May 3, 2021
Runtime
1h 25m
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