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Reds (1981)
Writing has been the only escape of Louise Bryant until she goes to a lecture one night in 1912 and is mesmerized by a radical journalist, John Reed. She leaves her husband and goes to Greenwich Village with Reed where she keeps writing, covering the 1913 Armory Show of post-impressionist paintings from Europe. Reed is so wrapped up in changing the world that Louise leaves him for awhile and stays with a playwright, Eugene O'Neill. She returns to Reed. He goes to Russia and covers the 1917 Revolution. She never forgets Reed. the only American to be buried next to the Kremlin wall.
Summary written by Dale O'Connor {daleoc@interaccess.com}
This movie tells the true story of John Reed, a radical American journalist around the time of World War I. He soon meets Louise Bryant, a respectable married woman, who dumps her husband for Reed and becomes an important feminist and radical in her own right. After involvement with labor and political disputes in the US, they go to Russia in time for the October Revolution in 1917, when the Communists siezed power. Inspired, they return to the US, hoping to lead a similar revolution. A particularly fascinating aspect of the movie is the inclusion of interviews with "witnesses", the real-life surviving participants in the events of the movie.
Summary written by Reid Gagle
So...we had a movie glorifying a traitor to the United States. Financed by Warren Beatty and the other Hollywood commies. Like I said, we need Senator McCarthy again. He was right.
Maybe they didn't know...lol
Seriously, I assumed John Reed was paid something but didn't know he received over a million bucks from Lenin in 1920. What a haul that was then! The equivalent of $10 million today. Notice how the money was passed in gems and artifacts. Lenin and Trotsky looted the Russian Church. In one letter, Lenin spoke of hundreds of billions in gold rubles they could steal from the Orthodox church. Armand Hammer fenced the swag in NYC.