Talk:People Will Talk

Roots in 1950's West Germany

I believe this movie was completely misunderstood by American critics who seem to have forgotten that it was a West German movie written by Curt Götz which had its meaning completely transposed when made into an American film. More needs to be made of the origin of the film in its West German roots of 1950 if we are to see the whole point of the drama. It is a few years after the war during which doctors allowed Jews to die in work and death camps and carried out experiments on inmates. Nazi doctors were not seriously prosecuted after the war and many had to hide their past which has overtones in Noah's character. Pregnant girls who had had one night flings with soldiers or with young lads killed in the war are reflected in the young Deborah. Then there is the doctor's factotum, Shunderson, a convicted murderer who has secrets too, like so many ordinary Germans who had murdered Jews and other civilians and those who plotted against the Hitler government. They have to be accepted back into society if West Germany was to make it as a country. Without this background, there would have been no original German movie. Missing this misses the point of this movie which actually does not work as a comedy despite efforts to make it so with a clever and witty script. SanVitores (talk) 12:14, 26 December 2022 (UTC)