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Verboten! (1959) Samuel Fuller
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Verboten! (1959) Samuel Fuller
June 29th 2026
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Verboten! Samuel Fuller USA, 1959 ★★★ Starts oddly, as an "american" melodrama but once the "german" side of the story kicks in, it never stops.
Verboten! (Samuel Fuller, 1959) secret romance between an american soldier and german girl, and other headaches during occupied germany. frauleins are verboten. this is so pulpy. so wonderful. a movie that wills itself into existence, tact or resources be damned. angling towards a trancendent truth unobtainable through other means, with anyone else behind the helm.
365 Day Movie Challenge (2017) - #286: Verboten! (1959) - dir. Samuel Fuller
Ten years ago, my mother and I planned on attending a double bill of Verboten! and Forty Guns (a 1957 Western) during a Samuel Fuller festival held by the Museum of the Moving Image. Our train was delayed, so we missed the first half of Verboten!, but we went into the old (pre-renovation) Riklis Theater anyway. I’ve never forgotten the haunting images of concentration camp footage that I saw in Verboten!, and after a decade of wondering - and watching a bunch of other awe-inspiring Sam Fuller films, including Pickup on South Street, the aforementioned Forty Guns, The Naked Kiss and White Dog - I have finally, gratefully seen Verboten! in its entirety, coincidentally at another Museum of the Moving Image show in a different Fuller retrospective.
Fuller’s film opens during the last days of World War II and continuing on through the aftermath of the war, in which Germany attempted to rebuild its economy with aid from American military. Sgt. David Brent (James Best in a superb performance) is a wounded soldier whose life is saved by a German civilian, Helga Schiller (Susan Cummings, also great and perhaps best remembered for decoding the title of the alien manual in the Twilight Zone episode “To Serve Man”); David immediately falls head over heels for his savior, although Helga views him primarily as a meal ticket and a way to keep her family safe. They get married but their relationship endures many struggles, including the fight to prove to others that love between an American and a German is possible in the wake of WWII, and later on, Helga’s need to convince David that she really does love him (he justifiably feels betrayed after he finds out the main reason for their union). The greatest battle of all comes when Helga’s teenage brother, Franz (Harold Daye), joins a faction of radicals that want to reignite the dying embers of the Nazi Party, headed by agitator Bruno Eckart (Tom Pittman, who tragically died in a car crash on Halloween, 1958).
Knowing the context of Verboten! is crucial. Many people erroneously consider Judgment at Nuremberg the first American film to have included archival footage pertaining to the Holocaust, but in fact, Sam Fuller’s film did it two years earlier. The documentary footage is blended into the narrative in a key scene in which Helga takes Franz to the Nuremberg Trials so that he can understand the full extent of the Nazi atrocities. When the screening was introduced by film historian Marsha Gordon, who discusses Verboten! at length in her book Film Is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies, she mentioned the visceral impact that the footage had on moviegoers; watching Verboten! with the audience at MOMI, the images of corpses at the camps is just as sickening and a reminder of the brutal history that happened not so long ago and that we can never afford to forget. Some might write Verboten! off as a low-budget melodrama intercut with documentary images used for shock value, but it is searing indictment of Nazi ideology from a Jewish-American filmmaker who saw the horrors of WWII firsthand when he served as an infantryman and witnessed the liberation of the Falkenau death camp. In today’s political climate, we need Verboten! more than ever.
Verboten! (1959)
Dir. Samuel Fuller
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Verboten! (1959)
Dir. Samuel Fuller
James Best in Verboten! (1958), directed by Samuel Fuller.
