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I didn’t have space to note that “Nation’s Pride,” the German film-within-the-film directed by Eli Roth and starring Daniel Bruhl as a German war hero playing himself, seems to be at least partly inspired by Brian G. Hutton’s “Where Eagles Dare” (1969), a World War II adventure where Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton play Allied commandos who pretend to be Germans. The full seven minutes will supposedly turn up on the DVD; above is a faux lobby card that serves as a website menu. I also didn’t mention the brief appearance at the climactic premiere of an actor playing Emil Jannings, who was presented the very first Best Actor Oscar at Union Station in Los Angeles. Jannings, who had a thick accent, returned to his native Germany when sound came in and stayed there for the rest of life, working in several Nazi propaganda films.

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