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The film sets out to illustrate the old adage "For want of a nail the battle was lost" showing how the inferior quality of something so trivial as a nail in a soldier's ...
Nail In The Boot (Russia 1932)
An armoured train carrying communist workers from a boot factory is attacked by imperialist forces. A soldier is sent away on foot and must try and call up ...
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The silent film concert THE NAIL IN THE BOOT will be on tour September 2013. After starting in Tromsø Norway during Silent Film Days 2013 the show will visit ...
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3/4 Nail in the Boot (Gvozd' v sapoge) by Mikhaïl KALATOZOV USSR/Agitprop 1931
Nail in the Boot a propaganda parable about a tribunal in which the accusers themselves are found guilty for having manufactured faulty boots used during ...
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Nail in the Boot a propaganda parable about a tribunal in which the accusers themselves are found guilty for having manufactured faulty boots used during ...
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