My son has been poisoned!
David Bromwich: Cold War movies, 26 January 2012
An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
by J. Hoberman.
New Press, 383 pp., £21.99, March 2011,978 1 59558 005 4 Show More
by J. Hoberman.
New Press, 383 pp., £21.99, March 2011,
“... the Hollywood CP, after the ‘fair seed-time’ of the Popular Front) are almost all unwatchable. Murray Kempton in Part of Our Time entertained himself by naming some of them: They Shall Have Music, I Stole a Million, Army Girl, The Kid from Kokomo, Mama Runs Wild, Tenth Avenue Kid. One can think of exceptions (Angels with Dirty Faces, for instance), but the ... ”