Plan for Destruction is a 1943 American short propaganda film directed by Edward Cahn. It looks at the Geopolitik ideas of the ex-World War I professor, General Karl Haushofer, who is portrayed as the head of a huge organisation for gathering information of strategic value and the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's wars and plans to enslave the world. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.[1]
Plan for Destruction | |
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Directed by | Edward Cahn |
Written by | Karl Kamb John C. Higgins |
Narrated by | Lewis Stone |
Cinematography | Jackson Rose |
Edited by | Harry Komer |
Music by | Nathaniel Shilkret |
Distributed by | MGM |
Release date |
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Running time | 22 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Cast
edit- Lewis Stone as himself - Commentator
- Frank Reicher as Karl Ernst Haushofer
- George Lynn as Rudolf Hess
References
edit- ^ "The 16th Academy Awards (1944) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved January 21, 2014.
External links
edit- Plan for Destruction at IMDb
- Plan for Destruction at AllMovie
- Plan for Destruction at the TCM Movie Database