Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Soldiers: WW2 Treatment Documentary - Let There Be Light (1948)

Let There Be Light is a 1946 American documentary film directed by John Huston.

The film, commissioned by the United States Army Signal Corps, was the final entry in a John Huston trilogy of films produced at the request of the U.S. Government. This documentary film follows 75 U.S. soldiers who have sustained debilitating emotional trauma and depression. A series of scenes chronicle their entry into a psychiatric hospital, their treatment and eventual recovery. Some of the treatments involved then-new drugs and hypnosis, and the impression was given of miraculous cures, though the narration says that there will be continuing psychiatric care.

Much of the filming was done at Edgewood State Hospital, Deer Park, Long Island, New York which between 1944 and 1946 was part of Mason General Hospital, a psychiatric hospital run by the United States War Department named for an Army doctor and general.

The film was controversial in its portrayal of shell-shocked soldiers from the war. "Twenty percent of our army casualties", the narrator says, "suffered psychoneurotic symptoms: a sense of impending disaster, hopelessness, fear, and isolation." Apparently due to the potentially demoralizing effects the film might have on recruitment, it was subsequently banned by the Army after its production, although some pirated copies had been made. Military police once confiscated a print Huston was about to show friends at the Museum of Modern Art. The Army claimed it invaded the privacy of the soldiers involved, and the releases Huston had obtained were lost; the War Department refused to get new ones. The release in the 1980s by Secretary of the Army Clifford Alexander, Jr. was attributed to his friend Jack Valenti who worked to get the ban lifted. The United States Archives now sells and rents copies of the film, and as a government work it is freely copied.

The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2010, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

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My Favorite Brunette: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr. (1947 Movie)

My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 movie spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style. Starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, it also features Lon Chaney, Jr. playing Willie, a character based on his Of Mice and Men role Lennie; Peter Lorre as Kismit, a comic take on his many film noir roles; and cameo appearances by film noir regular Alan Ladd and Hope partner Bing Crosby. Sequences were filmed in San Francisco and Pebble Beach, California.

Featured cast:
Actor / Role
Bob Hope / Ronnie Jackson
Alan Ladd / Sam McCloud
Dorothy Lamour / Baroness Carlotta Montay
Frank Puglia / Baron Montay
Peter Lorre / Kismet
Lon Chaney, Jr. / Willie
John Hoyt / Dr. Lundau
Charles Dingle / Major Simon Montague
Reginald Denny / James Collins
Ann Doran / Miss Rogers

CIA Archives: Interview with Zhou Enlai (1965)

Interview with Zhou En Lai in which he discusses the Chinese economy, U.S. relations with Taiwan, and implications of the atomic explosion.

CIA Archives: Soviet Psychological Torture Methods - Former Moscow Prison Inmate (1956)

This film documents the personal experiences of a former Moscow prison inmate, who described the psychological torture methods used to try to extract a confession.

God's Gun (1975 Movie)

God's Gun (also known as Diamante Lobo) is a 1975 Italian / Israeli Spaghetti western directed by Gianfranco Parolini (credited as Frank Kramer) and starring Lee Van Cleef. Jack Palance plays the head of a malicious group of bandits and Van Cleef plays a double-role of brothers: a priest and a reformed gunfighter determined to stop them.

Leif Garrett also plays a vital part in the film, as a fatherless kid who brings the reformed gunfighter to town.

Cast:

Lee Van Cleef as Father John / Lewis
Jack Palance as Sam Clayton
Richard Boone as The Sheriff
Sybil Danning as Jenny
Leif Garrett as Johnny
Robert Lipton as Jess Clayton
Cody Palance as Zeke Clayton
Ian Sander as Red Clayton
Pnina Rosenblum as Chesty
Zila Carni as Juanita Lewis
Heinz Bernard as Judge Barrett
Didi Lukov as Rip
Ricardo David as Angel George
Chin Chin as Willy
Rafi Ben Ami as Mortimer

Gulliver's Travels (1939 Movie)

Gulliver's Travels is a 1939 American cel-animated Technicolor feature film, directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer. The sequences for the film were directed by Seymour Kneitel, Willard Bowsky, Tom Palmer, Grim Natwick, William Henning, Roland Crandall, Thomas Johnson, Robert Leffingwell, Frank Kelling, Winfield Hoskins, and Orestes Calpini.

Cast:

Gulliver - Sam Parker
Gabby - Pinto Colvig
King Little, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch - Jack Mercer
King Bombo - Tedd Pierce
Princess Glory - Jessica Dragonette
Prince David - Lanny Ross

First Spaceship on Venus (1960)

First Spaceship on Venus, German: Der schweigende Stern (en: The Silent Star), Polish: Milcząca Gwiazda, is a 1960 East German/Polish film directed by Kurt Maetzig and based on the novel The Astronauts by Stanisław Lem. The film is also known as Planet of the Dead, Silent Star and Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply.

Cast:

Yoko Tani as Japanese female doctor / Sumiko Ogimura MD
Oldrich Lukes as American nuclear physicist / Prof. Harringway Hawling
Ignacy Machowski as Polish chief engineer / Prof. Saltyk / Prof. Durand
Julius Ongewe as African TV technician / Talua
Michail N. Postnikow as Soviet Astronaut / Prof. Arsenew / Orloff
Kurt Rackelmann as Indian mathematician / Prof. Sikarna
Günther Simon as German pilot / Robert / Raimund Brinkmann
Tang Hua-Ta as Chinese linguist / Dr. Tchen Yu / Lao Tsu
Lucyna Winnicka as TV reporter / Joan Moran (as Lucina Winnicka)