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Here runs a feel-good film—in that it awakened in me dormant nationalism for the American way of doing what’s right .For, in this film, we’re taught how the U.S. dedicated itself (thanks to hands and hearts of art experts) to search out and retrieve–at great danger to those men—the hidden or lost art treasures the Nazis aimed to destroy, or (if they won the war) to display in the museum Hitler was planning on building– modestly called “Fuhrer Museum”. It boggles the mind to learn of thousands of art pieces that were stashed in mines, monasteries and ancient castles—while The War was raging on.
George Clooney not only wrote the script but directed and starred in this film about the last days of World War II when the art of so much that represented “culture” in Europe might wind up destroyed. There was an urgent fear that if Hitler destroyed that art, he would in a sense bring a psychological vacuum to Europe’s past.
Clooney plays a guy in real life, Frank Stokes, who pleads the case before theGovernment that we simply must take steps to keep the art of Europe from meeting such a fate. He assembles a group of men –all well-known experts in their fields of art– to come with him to where the loot might be– and start searching out and recovering as much...
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