11-29-2008, 07:27 PM
The movie is a 1956 Hollywood's answer to McCarthy's war on subversives. Librarian won't take "communist" books off shelve. Whole town in an uproar. Bette gets fired and finally a little boy sets fire to the library which throws the baby out with the bathwater.
The town repents and will rebuild working together after seeing the error of their ways.
Kim Hunter, Brian Keith...many movies are subtle in their advocacy, but this is one like Stage Door Canteen that is a not so veiled a message.
The town repents and will rebuild working together after seeing the error of their ways.
Kim Hunter, Brian Keith...many movies are subtle in their advocacy, but this is one like Stage Door Canteen that is a not so veiled a message.