Verboten!

This hard-hitting expose of postwar Germany from the maker of PICK-UP ON SOUTH STREET provided a perfect vehicle for Fuller to expostulate on human cruelty and misunderstanding. Though at times appearing a bit too preachy, with actual footage from the concentration camps he effectively weaves two separate stories into one centering on Best as an American soldier assigned to the peacekeeping force. Because of his love for the German girl Cummings, the woman who saved him from falling into the grip of the Gestapo during the last days of the war, Best quits his post to marry her. (Regulations forbade soldiers to have relations with German women.) Although Cummings doe...