Episode 425: It Happened Here (1964)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s It Happened Here tells the story of Pauline, a nurse who lives in a world where the Nazis took over the UK during World War II. At first she goes along with the rule of the Reich until she witnesses -- and unwittingly participates in -- their cruelty, prompting her to join the British Resistance.

Wynter Tyson and Caelum Vatnsdal join Mike to discuss alternate histories, Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here, and when fascist aliens took over the United States.

This episode features the first part of our interview with cinematographer Peter Suschitzky.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:26.6	The German invasion of England took place in July 1940 after the British retreat from Dunkirk.
0:28.6	The British retreat from Dunkirk I've decided I can't stand on the sidelines any longer.
0:40.3	We don't accept your decisions. You accept ours.
0:56.0	I'm going going to become
1:15.6	I'm not going to become a voluntary political organization
1:18.6	I don't want to join any organization
1:21.6	This isn't magnetic seven things have changed It happened.
1:35.5	Your country is defeated and overrun.
1:40.2	But can you accept it?
1:42.1	Can you collaborate?
1:43.5	Is this what you had in mind when you decided to be a nurse?
2:07.7	If it happened here, if it happened to you, what would you do?
2:13.0	Could you stand the looks, the stairs, who are your friends?
2:16.3	Can you trust them?
2:23.0	Can they trust you?
2:27.1	I don't give a damn what you say about the fascists.
2:29.5	But don't try and whitewash those partisans.
2:31.8	They killed six of my closest friends and they very nearly killed me in a few seconds.
2:33.9	Yes, I do call them murderers, and I ought to know.
2:37.0	The appalling thing about fascism is that you've got to use fascist methods to get rid of it.
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