[nopardons]

Yes, I know, but "OUR DAILY BREAD" is a paean to Communist principles.

"STREET SCENE" was a play first and Vidor didn't write it. But it certainly is, IMO, a subversive movie and one which laid the foundations for the criminal as the "poor victim of society" !

King Vidor made many a great movie, was the first white to make an all black movie, for whites ( unlike the "race films", which were made by blacks FOR blacks and many of which are excellent, BTW ), and "THE FOUNTAINHEAD" isn't one of his best; but then, neither is the book any good.

[Borges]

Yes, I know, but "OUR DAILY BREAD" is a paean to Communist principles.

Again so was 'The Grapes of Wrath'. In many ways we are much more ecomonically conservative today then we were then.

STREET SCENE" was a play first and Vidor didn't write it. But it certainly is, IMO, a subversive movie and one which laid the foundations for the criminal as the "poor victim of society" !

That was part of a larger climate of thought at the time which included novels like Sister Carrie (as early as 1900) and 'Native Son'.In the latter, Richard Wright created a black teenager who kills a white woman in cold blood and then demands the reader understand the action as an inevitable product of his surroundings. What's ironic is that Wright later left the Communists and wrote anti communist essays.