The Truth about the "Hollywood Ten"

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 18, 2005 | Art Eckstein

[international american]

"The Flight of the Phoenix" Bullitt....many others

[Borges]

I didn't say there were NO good films. Just weak compared to the 1950s. All the great studio system directors were aging and in decline. The result was plastic films from great directors like 'Man's Favorite Sport', 'Torn Curtain' 'The Sandpiper'. Those three from men who had given us 'Red River', 'Vertigo' and 'Meet Me in St Louis'! But even the great popular successes of the early to mid 60s like 'Charade' and 'The Great Escape' strike me as stiff and and uninspired. Trivia: The Pawnbroker was the first mainstream American film with nudity.

[nopardons]

But Paul Robeson NEVER gave up his Stalinist support. Okay, he wasn't a writer, but I just thought I'd throw that into the mix. LOL

[Borges]

'Flight of the Phoenix' director Robert Aldrich was related to the Rockefeller family and his father was a Senator from Rhode Island who was one of the early proponents of the Income Tax Amendment. I'm just full of trivia today.

[nopardons]

Neither can I...which is why I skeptical of that figure. :-)

[international american]

Off to bed. We'll duke it out tomorrow: )

[nopardons]

Nighty night.........talk to you when I get back. :-)

[Borges]

No he didn't. I mentioned him earlier. A brilliant man with absolutely lamentable politics. What a waste of talent!

[nopardons]

"BULLIT" ??????????????????? :-(

[nopardons]

Oh fiddle-dee-dee...I love "CHARADE"!

What about "WAIT UNTIL DARK" ( though the play was much better ) and "THE TATTOOED MAN" and "SEVEN DAYS IN MAY" and "THE WORLD OF SUZIE WONG" and even "BAREFOOT IN THE PARK" ?

[pasquale]

None of the HUAC committee or staff (which originally included Congressman Richard M. Nixon) has written memorably on the events of 1947 and 1951, let alone on the later, smaller investigations.

Maybe not, but Bill Buckley wrote one, The Committee and Its Critics, that the left has never been able to refute.

[nopardons]

Oh, sorry, I must have missed that.

Yes, he wasted a great amount of time and his talent, being a quite rabid Stalinist, to the end of his days.

[international american]

It mirrored the life of the existential detective, concommitant with the downfall of civilized society very well. If people watch it for the chase scene, so be it.

[It's me]

There is a fantastic new film out. It is from Scotland called, Dear Frankie.

It is an awesome movie. Very well written, a great story. I just saw it this past weekend and was very impressed.

And, imagine this (!)no sex or violence or nudity.

[international american]

I'm getting tired.

[international american]

Charade is pure class from beginning to end.

[international american]

I learn every day.

[Calpernia]

I'm off to bed. See you tomorrow.

[rwfromkansas]

I am considering doing my "America and the World since 1930" research paper on the McCarthy hearings etc. based on hearing a couple years ago new documents provide support for the idea that communists were infiltrating the govt.

If anybody has some good articles on the subject, scholarly in nature, I would appreciate it. But, don't do a Google search or something; I am just wanting anything you already have you think is good, not for you to do the internet search for me.

[rwfromkansas]

BTW, I am aware the the HUAC and McCarthy were totally different things, but if anybody has articles on either one, but especially McCarthy and the Senate, I would appreciate a link.