Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Hollywood's Buried Legacy

J.R. Dunn, The American Thinker tells us about a number of movies that aren't around any more. Is there a pattern here? The Buried Legacy of Hollywood Anti-Communism. There were a lot of films made slamming the Nazis, but very few anti-Communist ones. How about this one:
Night People (1954) deals with Soviet espionage in Berlin. An Army intelligence officer must handle a crisis involving the kidnapping of a GI amid ever-multiplying complications. The real pleasure of this one is that the officer is played (with considerable conviction, too) by liberal icon Gregory Peck. At one point, Peck cusses out the New York Times for misreporting an incident. Not something you see every day in film.
One of my favorites is Ninotchka, which you can see from time to time, no doubt because it's a softened version of Communist reality, set in Paris, and Greta Garbo stars. I've never seen any of those Dunn mentions. His idea to bring them out again is a good one.

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