Resisting Enemy Interrogation is a 1944 U.S. Army training film, directed by Robert B. Sinclair and written by Harold Medford, that was designed to train U.S. Army Air Forces crews to resist interrogation by the Germans.
The film, 62 minutes in length, received an Academy Award nomination for best feature-length documentary for the year 1944. It has been played recently on Turner Classic Movies. The cast includes Arthur Kennedy, Mel Tormé, Lloyd ...
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Resisting Enemy Interrogation is a 1944 U.S. Army training film, directed by Robert B. Sinclair and written by Harold Medford, that was designed to train U.S. Army Air Forces crews to resist interrogation by the Germans.
The film, 62 minutes in length, received an Academy Award nomination for best feature-length documentary for the year 1944. It has been played recently on Turner Classic Movies. The cast includes Arthur Kennedy, Mel Tormé, Lloyd Nolan, Craig Stevens and Peter Van Eyck.
Sinclair was a captain in the U.S. Army Air Forces when the movie was made.
The movie centers around efforts by German intelligence to find the target of an upcoming raid by the mythical "B-99 bomber." To achieve this end, they interrogate a recently shot-down air crew.
The German officers use various methods to discover this information, some of them quite subtle. Though no physical brutality is used, the Germans at one point stage a mock execution. Each airman eventually provides useful information...
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