“Wilson” (Movie Review-8/2/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 8/2/44 | Bosley Crowther

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles and the occasional radio broadcast delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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Movie poster

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Not available from Netflix.

[bmwcyle]

I am not going to watch it.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

That is funny.

[Tax-chick]

Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Henry Cabot Lodge. That would be something to see.

[CondorFlight]

It’s a great movie; but it makes a pitch for “one-world”,
which was a common theme of the establishment during World War II.

(Wonder what ever came of that idea...?)

[Amagi]

Glenn Beck: “I hate this guy.” (always in reference to Woody Wilson)

[miss marmelstein]

As always, Bosley Crowther gets it wrong. The Roger Ebert of his day?

[Tax-chick]

Mr. Knox looks quite a bit like Wilson.

[miss marmelstein]

And probably as stiff as a board as was the original.

[Tax-chick]

I think that’s what the reviewer means by “marked by a fine reserve.”

[miss marmelstein]

Dreadful, dreadful movie. I just saw it about a month ago...again. Now Alexander Knox did give good performances but this isn’t one of them. It was a box-office disaster as I remember and Daryl Zanuck couldn’t get over that.

[PBRCat]

The movie flopped just like the original internationalist Wilson.

[miss marmelstein]

Yes, I knew that, too. It was a pet project of Daryl Zanuck. You can fool some of the audiences some of the time...

[Tax-chick]

Very interesting. This is the first I’ve heard of it.

[Blennos]

1944 film was a box-office disaster.

(from IMDB):

Budget:
$4,000,000 (estimated)
Gross:
$2,000,000 (USA)

[murron]

I watched it as well. I didn’t like the way they made it look like no big deal that his wife took over the country while he was incapacitated. But the movie wasn’t about controversy.

[miss marmelstein]

It’s just such a bore. He pontificates throughout the whole movie. And...um...no mention that he was the biggest raaaaaaaaaacist on the face of the earth.

[trisham]

LOL!