Jim Mullen Tate (TheFearmakers) Martin Kosleck est known or recognized by movie fans as the red-herring windmill resident replacement in Alfred Hitchcock's classic, FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT, and unlike that memorable, sparse yet important cameo, he's pretty much the entire vehicle for this particular CORRESPONDENT made two years later, only now we're on his home turf during, not before, The Second World War: BERLIN, Germany against American Dana Andrews, with a pencil thin mustache usually given to Silent Movie villains, playing the most intrepid role by mere introduction... A New York broadcast telling America the names of all overseas Correspondents, ranging from men working in England to Holland, which sound like soft jobs as opposed to where Dana's Bill Roberts works, reading what seems like German-written propaganda about their side of things, but with secret coded adjectives, he gets through to his newspaper back home, and, despite acting permanently teflon, like some kind of one-dimensional comic book hero (not one of Andrews' best roles), with the severity of his job, the attitude fits: especially in a feel-good wartime programmer.She doesn't know anything, and stuck in a cold, heartless romance with intense Nazi Captain von Rau, played by Martin Kosleck, she's actually in the most danger since he's the scariest character. But like all good actors, there's a vulnerable side that sheds wan light through an otherwise steely countenance. With his severe looks, though, it's not easy to pull off being all that friendly.Kosleck, who'd play sinister Germans throughout his career, owns the picture for more than his narrowed-eyes wielding an intense, soulless reflection of The Furor's agenda. While Andrews' story revs up, taking verbal shots at The Third Reich in an obvious attempt to make Hitler seem like the type of clown Charlie Chaplin portrayed in THE GREAT DICTATOR, the sole heavy, by standing firm and playing the role with unbridled fervor while still remaining alert and controlled, is the centerpiece - even as Andrews eventually becomes a more physical hero, and gets deeper into trouble - from a last minute race-against-time attempt to save his girl involving a psycho ward and then his own hopeful prison escape - our edgy German spotlight is the reason that anyone fears anything at all: In short, Kosleck has the job of embodying the entire Nazi Party.

bkoganbing What Clark Gable was doing the Soviets in Comrade X Dana Andrews is doing to the Nazis in Berlin Correspondent. Of course Comrade X was a far better film.This quickie from 20th Century Fox takes place starting in the summer of 1941 when the Nazis broke their pact with the Soviet Union and invaded. Dana Andrews is broadcasting to America with strict supervision, but still manages to get news in print to his home paper in New York that is too accurate for Nazi taste. This has the Gestapo most concerned and Martin Kosleck sends in his own girlfriend Virginia Gilmore to find out.What she does find out hits home because her father Erwin Kalser is one of the helpers. She does a 180 degree spin and falls for Andrews and the rest is for you to watch.This is one of those films from the WW2 years which makes the Nazis out to be ludicrously stupid. They weren't all Wilhelm Klink's or they would not have done what they did. You have to marvel at what our concept of a concentration camp was before they were liberated and how easily Andrews escapes.Sig Ruman and Kurt Katch are also stupid Nazis in this film and Mona Maris is a jealous Nazi girl who has her own war with Gilmore to fight. Berlin Correspondent is a mediocre remnant of World War II days and hardly likely to be in the Dana Andrews top 10.

mark.waltz Two years after being a "Foreign Correspondent" and really making an impact (leading to stardom), Dana Andrews moved To Berlin, where as a different character, he is forced to speak in code to get the truth out as Germany takes over much of Europe. Nazi Martin Kosleck is determined to silence the truth and has Andrews followed. However, the dunce trailing Andrews is constantly recognized through his attempts at disguise so Kosleck changes his methods to utilize a female instead. His fiancée Virginia Gilmore gets the job and uses Andrews to get her objector father out of a mental asylum. Kosleck's jealous secretary (Mona Maris) plots to keep Kosleck and Gilmore from marrying, and vindictively sets up everybody's downfall.Almost comedic with its serious plot, this even has a bit of a "Prisoner of Zenda" subplot thrown in with a German actor utilizing Andrews' voice on radio while Andrews lingers in a concentration camp. Sig Ruman is the head of the mental institution Andrews briefly infiltrates (disguised as a Nazi psychiatrist) and is an exact duplicate of "Hogan Heroes"' Colonel Klink. But this is the world of the Nazis where the plot indicates that even a wisecrack about the Fuhrer can get one killed or shipped off to the Russian front. There's even a character who dramatically declares "I know nothing!", Sgt. Schultz's oft-quoted line from "Hogan's Heroes" which makes you wonder if the creators of that show viewed this movie then decided to go ahead with the premise of that often skewered sitcom.While there were comedies which poked fun at the rigidness of the Nazis and even the appearance of Hitler, there's nothing structurally comedic about this plot to make it funny, an insult to the viewers intelligence. We know that when Chaplin, Jack Benny or Hal Roach make a film with a Hitler type character there, they are going for parody, but in the case of an A studio like 20th Century Fox thinking that burlesquing the extremely dangerous Nazis during the war shows their lack of trust in the brains of their viewing audience. This seems like something that one of the poverty row studios like Monogram or PRC might produce. The laughs that do come are there because the viewer can't help but laugh at the film maker's naiveté in thinking that the audiences didn't find the whole thing absurd...and insulting.

blanche-2 Dana Andrews plays an American radio correspondent whose broadcasts are suspected of concealing codes containing war information. Andrews becomes embroiled with a young Nazi sympathizer, played by Virginia Gilmore, whose father is an ardent anti-Nazi, and whose fiancée (Martin Kosleck) is a Nazi colonel. Andrews manages to pull off some rather outrageous stunts during this film but nevertheless, it's an entertaining, if somewhat typical propaganda film of the era.Virginia Gilmore is very attractive, while Kosleck, as usual, is mean as dirt as the Nazi. In real life, of course, he got out of Germany just in time, as he was tried in absentia by the Nazis and sentenced to death. He enjoyed playing members of the Third Reich, as he loathed them for what they did to Germany.