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Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler ()

directed by Louis Clyde Stoumen
featuring Marlene Dietrich

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Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler - Louis Clyde Stoumen
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Despite its Disneyesque title, The Black Fox is actually a documentary of the rise and fall of the Third Reich. Authentic scenes of Adolf Hitler and the war and atrocities that he fomented are framed by a curious literary device. Hitler's ascension is compared to that of Reynard the Fox, a medieval folk-fable "trickster". While this device could have been pretentious--or, at the very worst, precious--the film works quite well. The newsreel footage seen in The Black Fox is relatively familiar, but the treatment sheds new ...

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