the-alt-historian reblogged
Two-time winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor Anthony ‘Doc’ Savage reprised his role in the US Third Army’s 1946 conquest of the Alpine Redoubt on the silver screen, playing himself in director Fritz Lang’s Festung Europa (1952). He is seen here in art director William Cameron Menzies’s depiction of the Thule Society ‘temple’ which was the setting for the film’s climactic battle. While there were in fact highly placed members of the Society sequestered within the Redoubt, there was no ornate and elaborate temple complex and according to ‘Doc’ himself 'They (the Thule Society "priesthood") were just a buncha cringing whackos. Hell, the nuns I had in parochial school were scarier!'