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Now it can be told! Or maybe, now it can’t be told? William Bradford Huie’s novel of creeping American ambition in Honolulu ends up as a tame vehicle for Jane Russell, who in one of her last big starring movies gives the Hawaiian scenery a run for its money. Raoul Walsh does well in the direction department, but the story has been cleaned up for Sunday School.

The Revolt of Mamie Stover

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1956 / Color / 2:55 widescreen / 92 min. / Street Date July 17, 2018 / Available from the Twilight Time Movies Store / 29.95

Starring: Jane Russell, Richard Egan, Joan Leslie, Agnes Moorehead, Jorja Curtright, Michael Pate, Richard Coogan, Alan Reed, Eddie Firestone, Jean Willes, Margia Dean, Sally Todd, Hugh Beaumont.

Cinematography: Leo Tover

Costumes: Travilla

Visual Effects: Ray Kellogg

Original Music: Hugo Friedhofer

Written by Sydney Boehm, from the novel by William Bradford Huie

Produced by Buddy Adler

Directed by Raoul Walsh...

August 28, 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi. Two white men - Roy Bryant Jr. and J. W. Milam - seize Till after he supposedly whistled at a white woman, and days later, he's found brutally murdered, his body mutilated. An all-white jury would eventually acquit the two men of the crime. Although they would later confess in a paid interview with journalist William Bradford Huie, for Look magazine. Exactly 8 years later, August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. (who called Till's murder "one of the most brutal and inhuman crimes of the...

August 28, 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi. Two white men - Roy Bryant Jr. and J. W. Milam - seize Till after he supposedly whistled at a white woman, and days later, he's found brutally murdered, his body mutilated. An all-white jury would eventually acquit the two men of the crime. Although they would later confess in a paid interview with journalist William Bradford Huie, for Look magazine. Exactly 8 years later, August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. (who called Till's murder "one of the most brutal and inhuman crimes of the...

August 28, 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi. Two white men - Roy Bryant Jr. and J. W. Milam - seize Till after he supposedly whistled at a white woman, and days later, he's found brutally murdered, his body mutilated. An all-white jury would eventually acquit the two men of the crime. Although they would later confess in a paid interview with journalist William Bradford Huie, for Look magazine. Exactly 8 years later, August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. (who called Till's murder "one of the most brutal and inhuman crimes of the...

Today in history... August 28, 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, is abducted from his uncle's home in Money, Mississippi. Two white men - Roy Bryant Jr. and J. W. Milam - seize Till after he supposedly whistled at a white woman, and days later, he's found brutally murdered, his body mutilated. An all-white jury would eventually acquit the two men of the crime. Although they would later confess in a paid interview with journalist William Bradford Huie, for Look magazine. Maybe fittingly, exactly 8 years later, August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. (who called Till's murder "one of the most brutal and inhuman crimes of the twentieth century"), led The...

(Lamont Johnson, 1974, Transition, 12)

In January 1945, Private Eddie Slovik was executed in France, the only American soldier shot for desertion since the civil war. General Eisenhower refused to commute the sentence (as he later, when president, refused to reprieve the Rosenbergs).

The Pentagon attempted unsuccessfully to repress William Bradford Huie's 1954 book on the subject. In 1960, Frank Sinatra cancelled his proposed film version (scripted by blacklisted writer Albert Maltz) under pressure from Joseph Kennedy, who thought Sinatra's involvement in such a controversial project would damage JFK's presidential prospects. In formerly blacklisted Carl Foreman's The Victors (1963), a wintry firing squad scene inspired by the Slovik affair is accompanied by Sinatra's Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

The movie was finally made for TV by the reliable Lamont Johnson. It attracted a record audience for a one-off TV drama and is a sombre, sober, unsentimental work about chance fate, the arbitrary...

This article originally ran here at We Are Movie Geeks in October 2009. I’m re-posting it to help promote Super-8 Lee Marvin Movie Madness September 6th at The Way Out Club here in St. Louis.

Only in the 1970.s could Hollywood have turned its attention to the subject of racism in the deep south and come up with something so jaw-dropping in it.s political incorrectness as The Klansman. On the surface the 1974 film is a serious depiction of the bigotry and the racial confrontations that tear apart an Alabama town in the 1960.s, but watching it today The Klansman comes off at times serious, laughable, meanspirited, sleazy, and racist. I.m sure the movie wasn’t meant to be racist, but it is filled with characters mouthing so many racist beliefs and committing so many racist crimes that the movie seems to gloat gleefully in its outrageous depiction of bigotry and delivers one ham-fisted,...

hollywoodnews.com: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Monday Nights with Oscar®” series will kick off 2011 with a screening of “Wild River” (1960), starring Montgomery Clift, on Monday, January 24, at 7 p.m. at the newly renovated Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City. Two-time Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jay Cocks (“The Age of Innocence,” “Gangs of New York”) will introduce the film.

In this intense drama set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Montgomery Clift plays Chuck Glover, a field agent for the Tennessee Valley Authority who must convince an elderly woman (Jo Van Fleet) to give up her property for a project, while he becomes romantically involved with her widowed granddaughter, Carol Baldwin (Lee Remick).

“Wild River” was directed and produced by Elia Kazan, from a screenplay by Paul Osborn based on novels by William Bradford Huie and Borden Deal. The film was restored by the Academy...

Only in the 1970’s could Hollywood have turned its attention to the subject of racism in the deep south and come up with something so jaw-dropping in it’s political incorrectness as The Klansman. On the surface the 1974 film is a serious depiction of the bigotry and the racial confrontations that tear apart an Alabama town in the 1960’s, but watching it today The Klansman comes off at times serious, laughable, mean-spirited, sleazy, and racist. I’m sure the movie wasn’t meant to be racist, but it is filled with characters mouthing so many racist beliefs and committing so many racist crimes that the movie seems to gloat gleefully in its outrageous depiction of bigotry and delivers one ham-fisted, hypocritical message. The Klansman really has to be seen to be believed but you can’t, because it’s Not available on DVD!

The Klansman, from a novel by William Bradford Huie,...