What was Cukor smoking when he filmed this? And the quote goes on.. "Once in a while you find a bad apple... once in a great while.". Nice propaganda there Cukor. Enterprise is evil but government is saintly? He's more delusional than his pretty boy hammer and sickle lead in Holden.
The kind of enterprise Crawford was engaged in wasn't exactly on the level...
But, yes, how naive. And to think that people involved in making this film were suspected of being commie sympathizers (Holliday was apparently even investigated by the FBI).
"facts are stupid things" Ronald Reagan
Yeah, I'm not defending Crawford's character - how could I? To say the writers painted his character into a corner as the bad guy would be an understatement. It's pretty embarrassing how heavy-handed the subject matter is treated. Nothing more than a propaganda piece.
Yeah, many in Hollywood/movie industry were communist sympathizers, and as this film shows, they weren't exactly hiding it. They should be free to be so, but also shouldn't cry about being unemployable as a result.
I think that Broderick Crawford's character is written in stark black ink and painted very broadly. I also think that one cannot just "buy" a senator. Not that they are wearing shining armor, but they do have egos. I think most of them would be offended to be bought outright. It takes a little finesse with contributions to their political funds, favored PACs, and honorariums for speaking engagements. They are for sale, at least their votes and influence are, but one must observe the proprieties.
I would rather that they did just openly auction their votes. Then we would know better where they stand. I would like my senator to sell dear.
The best diplomat I know is a fully charged phaser bank.
Lol - right, but I wouldn't put those comments alongside the point that the film made. It was just a crude - "Government is righteous, rarely corruptible" stance that the naive brainwashed "educated" made in the 1950s, when many of them just had a love affair with Communism.
I'd have shown this on TV on
the night Nixon resigned!
Corruption is not nearly as prevalent in Washington DC as most ordinary people like you believe.
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