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Politics and Prose: Glenn Frankel- High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist & The Making of a Classic

Source:The Daily Review I don’t have much to offer about the movie High Noon, as least the original one from 1952. I did however see a movie with the same title from the Lifetime Network (of all places) in I … Continue reading

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The Hollywood Reporter: Victims of Hollywood’s Blacklist

Source: The Hollywood Reporter: Victims of Hollywood’s Blacklist I don’t think there’s anything more Un-American and Un-liberal democratic as punishing people simply because of what they believe and their politics. But that is what the U.S. House of Representatives decided to … Continue reading

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Zip Trivia: ‘Are You a Commie, or a Citizen?’

“This movie tells you what it takes to be a true patriotic, American. If you can’t rat out the godless commies without thinking, watch this film!” From Zip Trivia  “Authentic first-hand information by a man who knows. In 1939 Reverend Kenneth … Continue reading

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Jnuss Bau: Video: The Hollywood Blacklist: 1947-1960

. The late 1940s and all the way up to at least the mid-1950s or so was one of the most fascist illiberal and anti-liberal democratic periods of our time. I think elements of today’s Tea Party and the Ann … Continue reading

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Tasty Peach Cobbler: Video: The Army-McCarthy Hearings Documentary

. This post was originally posted at FRS Daily Post on Blogger The West with the help of Russia wins World War II and agrees to give Europe the resources that it needs to rebuild themselves after Nazism and what … Continue reading

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