Scary Flick about the Real RED Scare
This classic was hard to fine and understandably so. The plot follows an American Vet perturbed by our benevolent big government not fullfilling the American dream of the G.I. Bill's promise of a low interest home loan. Our patriot is the target of a Communist cell who are always looking for new recruits and also offering their version of the American dream however sans God,mother,country and the apple pie. Great flick goes over every communist type. But watch out for that liberated woman she may not feel diamonds are a girl's best friend but she'll take a goosestepping communist with a baseball bat (and I don't mean the game) any time so put on those kneeguards and enjoy
the flick.
A Child of its Time
This DVD must be watched on a plasma TV. The blacks are so black, and the tonal gradients are so pronounced. Every scene looks as if it were an art photo-print. The cinematographer really knew what he were doing when he shot this film. Visually it is stunning.
There is an historic context to this film. It was made at the very outset of the anti-communist hysteria that gripped the post WWII United States. This was made around the time of the Alger Hiss scandal, at the outset of the HUAC hearings, and a few years shy of Joseph McCarthy era.
One must begin to ask if the depiction of cells of "Communists" really reflect what American Communists were really all about, and what their meetings, and agitations were really like. I have to suspect that the depiction and the reality are quite seriously divergent.
I would implore literate patrons of Amazon.com, and those wider read to suggest some memoirs or accounts by members of the American...
The only difference between the the Reds of today, is that they have changed their name to Liberal.
Told it like it was. This movie shows how the Reds worked their way into peoples lives & subverted their way of thinking.
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