(The interesting thing I found there was how Kazan's comments about how he didn't feel the need to risk his career for communists because they tried to strong-arm his control of a theatrical group he was in. Sure puts his testimony in an interesting light--I can't think of ANYONE who would have held back from doing so based on creative interference. You can be sure if the House asked Hollywood types today to testify about Conservative interference today, they'd be leaping over each other to name names.)
Just skimmed this so far but it's fascinating stuff. Oh, and any other references to Hollywood and communism would be appreciated.
“Trumbo, on the other hand, got bounced good and hard.”
That is until he was brought in from the cold by none other than Kirk Douglas to do the screen work on “Spartacus”, with its major theme of “workers unite”. “Spartacus” went on to win 4 Oscars; and, in 1993, the Communist traitor Trumbo was given a posthumous Oscar for screen writng (”Roman Holiday”).
Hollywood has always been sympathetic to Communism, and needed no FDR to encourage it in its worship of Leftist’s totalitarians, then or now.
Hollywood continued to have Reds through the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1960s they proudly held up their copies of Mao’s Little Red Book (Marlon Brando’s personal copy went up for sale on ebay in recent years). Jane Fonda proclaimed that we would all gladly live under Communism if we only weren’t too stupid to realize what it really was.
ping
You get to vote on this, with dollars.
Stop sending money to Hollywood.
Even when the films aren’t blatant propaganda,
10c of every buck ends up at the DNC.
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I haven’t been to a movie in years.
Don’t watch broadcast or sat TV either.
Making a factual movie about Carlson and the Marine Raiders would be difficult but well worth the effort.
An old Marine I know still refers to Carlson as “that old communist bastard.”
When the remains of Marine Raiders were recovered from Makin a few years back, I believe Carlson was still alive and pushing 95.
To say Carlson was one of the more interesting characters to wear a Marine unform is an understatement.
These films look like masterpieces of accuracy against current fecal entries like “Redacted” and “Lions for Lambs.”
mark
Let’s not forget FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, an extremely fine film which doesn’t dwell on communisim but on fighting Franco’s forces.
And who can forget DAYS OF GLORY with Gregory Peck.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036748/
I have seen most of these movies and must remember that the Soviets were our allies during WWII which is probbly why they were made, complete with their commie “paradise” themes.
Among other non political films at the time were DRAGONSEED, about the Chinese in the war, CROSS OF LORAINE, about the French in the war(ok, so the film was fiction), EDGE OF DARKNESS about the Norwegeans in the war, but the films about Russia were the most political pro commie films I’ve seen.
“Instead we got the legend of martyrdom, and hundreds of hours of foul ideological exercises, unto the present day. “
Well, yes and no. More & more is coming out about the genocidal tendencies of the Left in Russia and E. Europe, thanks not only to you, but to people like Solzhenitsyn and Robert Conquest, and to the Internet. Look up Katyn massacre or Vinnitsa genocide, for example. I’m hoping that the American Left- if that’s not an oxymoron- just simply doesn’t know the extent of Murderous Marxists, 1918 to the present.