#year 1939

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150. Correspondente Estrangeiro (Foreign Correspondent, 1940), dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Charlie Chan at Treasure Island *** (1939, Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore) - Classic Movie Review 9051

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island *** (1939, Sidney Toler, Cesar Romero, Pauline Moore) – Classic Movie Review 9051

Director Norman Foster’s 1939 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan at Treasure Island is a gripping series episode with a useful guest star turn from Cesar Romero as a conjurer called Rhadini helping Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) to show that Charlie’s writer buddy’s ‘suicide’ was actually murder at the San Francisco Bay’s Treasure Island Golden Gate International Exposition show.

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Remember the Battle of the Atlantic: September 1939–May 1943.

Submarine warfare had some impact in the First World War, but became vastly more significant in WWII as the German U-boat packs aimed to blockade Europe. Merchant ships took to sailing in large convoys, protected by screens of destroyers and corvettes armed with depth charges and sonar. Daring U-Boat commanders carried out torpedo attacks within the defensive screen, and when several submarines attacked at once, the defenders had little chance of striking back.

In the end, the Battle of the Atlantic was eventually won by technology. Radar to detect U-Boats from the surface, radio interception, and code-breaking all played a part. By the end of the war, more than 3,000 merchant ships had been sunk, as well as almost 800 U-Boats.