ABSTRACT
The Hollywood studio system had reached the apogee of its glory, by the mid 1930s. The fascist dictatorships simply refused to judge the Hollywood pictures on the same basis as their producers. Hollywood studios had learned very quickly that the masters of the New Germany found their product to be infinitely resistable. However reluctantly, Hollywood was dragged by force of circumstances into the murky realms of American foreign policy. In the ranks of the feature film Paramount's The Last Train from Madrid had the dubious distinction of being the first Hollywood production to grapple with the complex moral and political issues of the war. The advent of the Spanish Civil War persuaded Hollywood to dip its little toe into the icy waters of foreign affairs. Twentieth Century-Fox halted preparation on another Spanish Civil War story called Alcazar because of 'protests' and Universal's Delay in the Sun was postponed indefinitely.
