All This and World War II (1976)

Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Susan Winslow
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Old Fox Movietone newsreels and clips from Fox movies are edited together, then given a soundtrack of Beatles covers by popular 1970s artists. Improbably, it works. Who knew the Beatles were writing their songs about war? "Here Comes the Sun King" is actually a reference to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. "Come Together" is a rallying cry to defeat the Axis. And so on. It somehow succeeds in making one feel nostalgic for war, a sort of wispy-eyed longing for a common cause, though at the risk of forgetting the awful human price to be paid. This is not to be taken as a serious documentary, but more like a midnight movie escape, after all there is Adolf Hitler goose-stepping to the Bee Gees.