Bon Voyage & Aventure Malgache

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Audience Member Alfred Hitchcock made these two shorts to support the war effort in 1944, feeling that he wanted to contribute in some way and being too overage and too overweight to participate in other ways. Both focus on the French Resistance and the nameless men and women fighting the Gestapo and the Vichy government (neither Hitler nor the Nazis are mentioned here). Naturally, Hitch uses the spy thriller as his genre of choice but at only 30 minutes each there is little he can do to develop a complex plot. Nevertheless, he tries. In Bon Voyage, a Scottish RAF man relates his escape from occupied France back to England, telling how he was helped by another escapee from the P.O.W. camps and by the Resistance, not realizing that he had mistakenly played into the Gestapo's hands and given up the Free French for dead. In Aventure Malgache, Hitch again uses the narrative device of having the characters relate a past event seen in flashback. This time, on Madagascar, the French Resistance leader broadcasts a nightly radio address under the nose of the Vichy-backed leaders. The plot of this one sees actors discussing the characters they are playing in a stage-based version of the anecdote. Admittedly, it is a bit confusing; Bon Voyage is the stronger of the two. Both are dispensable, except for Hitchcock completists. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member It is an interesting film all spoken in French that tells the story about a double agent within the allied prisoners escaping a German POW camp. It was an interesting French Resistance film. A interesting story about a British double agent within the group working as a villain. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member the review is for the second film as that is the only one I've seen-so far. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Aventure Malgache- not the regular hitchcock. dunno shite about the French resistance so it was just a so-so, different Hitchcock watch. luckily it was over in half an hour. a lil apprehensive watching Bon Voyage now, Aventure Malgache was kinda 'war heavy' on the dialogue. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A Hitchcock short, and it's world war 2 propaganda as the French resistance gets its recognition in this little spy tale. Of course in 1944 this would have been a decent viewing. Not now to be fair Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Hitchcockilta pari lyhytelokuvaa ranskan vastarintaliikkeen kunniaksi Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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