This could have been a much more effective WW2 drama had not the screenwriter and producer Casey Robinson gummed it up with a ridiculous romance between his wife Tamara Toumanova and Gregory Peck. They play an out-of-place Russian ballerina and a guerilla commander, respectively, who mix it up while the German invaders are over-running the Soviet Union. In between clinches the audience gets a relatively mild dose of Popular Front propaganda of the type that every studio in town cranked out for a brief time to bolster public opinion about our Red Allies. "The North Star" is a similar film, but much more action-oriented, and much more entertaining as a result.
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