“A passionately anti-war statement (made at the same time as Renoir's La Grande Illusion), J'Accuse is not a remake of Abel Gance's silent World War One film of the same name, but rather an updating of it, and a transference of many of its elements to the milieu preceding World War Two. It is a strange combination of mysticism, horror and science fiction. The climax by the way originally showed the Army of the Dead successfully preventing war. The version we are showing tonight, released in the U.S. after war was declared, rather understandably removed these final scenes and left the film as an eloquent plea for the banishment of war, its sincerity made all the more poignant by (in practical terms) the obvious futility of the film's idealism.”