I will admit I was very surprised to hear this swaggering military adventure playing from my speaker the first time. Guarrault might have been trying to figure out something that would actually see play on more conventional radio, but what an odd one-off to find on his 1949 "Sketch Reel". It is impossible not to imagine The Expatriate as another serial hero in the mould of Doc Savage, Buck Rogers, The Phantom and so many more. Still, it seems Guarrault just couldn't help himself from bootlegging some light supernatural semi-horror into the piece in the form of jet black killer robots with "glowing red eyes and machine gun arms" designed to look like human skeletons and erupt from the grave soil of Nazi Berlin. What can you say, the man knew what he liked.