It was a guilty pleasure to watch this hammy old movie about the personal life of Der Fuhrer. It was a lot of fun watching Richard Basehart walk around chewing the scenery playing old Adolf. Watching John Banner, famous for his role as Sgt. Shultz in Hogan's Heroes, seriously play a Nazi was also fun. (John Banner was an Austrian Jew who's family was killed in the Holocaust and escaped from Europe just in time).
The film presents gossip about Hitler's sex life as fact. It depicts Hitler as having had an incestuous relationship with his mother and being impotent. He is fascinated by his niece, Geli Rabaul, because of her resemblance to his mother, but is unable to consummate the relationship due to his impotence. When Geli tries to leave him, Hitler has her killed. Hitler's sex life is saved by the sexy young photographer, Eva Braun, who helps Der Fuhrer to overcome his problems. Fortunately, after Eva turns out the light and gets naked, Der Fuhrer is able to rise to the occasion. Poor Eva, finds out too late, after she has agreed to commit suicide with Hitler, that even though Hitler married her, there can only ever be one Mrs. Hitler, and that was Mama.
This enjoyable exploitation movie is worth watching at least once. It's got its moments. The film's depiction of the so-called "Night of the Long Knives" when Hitler got rid of Ernst Rohm and the Brown Shirts, is actually fairly accurately portrayed and is worth the price of admission.
The Bad Catholic gives this old sleazy exploitation movie Three and a half out of Five Swastikas.
Richard Basehart taking a break on the set.
For his crimes he was sentenced to a long "Voyage To the Bottom of the Sea"
