Guilty by Suspicion
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Movie Reviews of Guilty by Suspicion
Movie Review: Liberalism's Passion Play
Summary: 2 Stars
I'm so tired of Hollywood whining about the McCarthy era. Most recently it was "Good Night and Good Luck"; before that, "The Majestic"; before *that*, "The Crucible." They're like a dog with an old slipper it can't stop chewing. Hollywood's thirst for victim status needs to be slaked wherever and whenever possible, but it sure does make for boring viewing. The only thing that saves this film from total ignominy is a passel of great performances. Contrived performances, but great nonetheless.
Note to the producers: put your talent to more worthy efforts next time. To paraphrase a famous McCarthy era Hollywood luminary: "Have you no shame Hollywood? At long last, have you no shame? The McCarthy era is dead!"
Movie Review: Guilty By Communism (If The Shoe Fits...)
Summary: 1 Stars
Another attempt by leftists to rewrite history and generate sympathy for (and disguise) their collaboration with those who seek to destroy our American way of life. Don't fall for it. In relation to this dramatized account, I recently watched "Hollywood On Trial", which also seeks to generate sympathy for anti-American activity by showing genuine footage of the "terrible/tragic/unfair/mean spirited/hateful/etc, etc, etc" actual hearings. The interesting thing is that instead of accomplishing the mission of showing the Hollywood Ten as poor, helpless, innocent victims, rather it shows them up for what they actually were (are): communists. It is hilarious to watch them squirm, backpedal and crawfish when asked a simple, straightforward, easy question: "are you now, or were you ever, a member of the communist party?" Anyone who cannot answer this simple question in one word does not need to be in hollywood cranking out subversive, unpatriotic, communist, anti-American propaganda disguised as "entertainment".
For the real story on communist infiltration of hollywood (which is still very much prevalent today, as evidenced by this production of "Guilty By Suspicion"), as well as the real story about Senator McCarthy's efforts to resist those whose goal was (is) to destroy America, I highly recommend the book "Treason" by Ann Coulter (also available on audio CD), which exhaustively documents that communists in America were (and are) not "Guilty By Suspicion", but instead were simply guilty because, despite all their loud, thrashing-around, indignant, tearful, smoke screen laden protestations to the contrary, they were and are communists, committed to the destruction of America.
Movie Review: St Thomas More Step Aside Here Comes Robert Merrill
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie replaces character development and plot with an earnestly earnest exposition on well-known historical facts. It is about the victimization of people by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities (HUAC). Robert De Niro protrays a movie director (Robert Merrill) who with unflinching courage defends himself from false accusations, protects his friends' reputations and exposes the committee for the know-nothing jingoists that they are. It would have been a much better movie if De Niro's character was a human being and not a preternatural being of infinite virtue and courage. He, with a steely gaze, destroys his own and his estranged wife's lives with his unyielding principles. St Thomas More would have to acknowedge that compared to the Robert Merrill character, he was a moral coward.HUAC is now an historical fact with the judgement of history revealing it as an hysterical reaction to a mythical threat. The real question about this movie is why its creators thought that they had to reveal the same historical facts to their audience with paste board characters in a stilted plot. If they had used the HUAC hearings as a backdrop to examine someone whose world had been talken from him unjustly, this could have been a fascinating movie. However that would be a different movie in which the personalities of the characters would have been more than stock political cliches.
Movie Review: Winkler In Way Over His Head
Summary: 1 Stars
You have a sense of some noble purpose to Irwin Winkler's creation of this movie. But it's a mess.
The scerenplay is the worst sort of hackneyed melodrama. The man who gave us "Airport" decides to handle the McCarthy disaster. TO be effective as a disaster movie, the audience has to be brought to care about the protagonists.
You have Robert DeNiro, the most amazing and hard-working actor of the last thirty years. You have other supporting players who are competent, dedicated and almost glad to be here.
Even excellent acting cannot get the audience sympathetic for self-absorbed, narcissistic and uninvolved postwar moviemakers and stars. When a female character commits suicide, you are supposed to identify with her and feel a sense of tragedy. Instead, you feel something like relief that you don't have to listen to her any more.
Liberal or conservative? Republican or Democrat? Hell, it really doesn't matter. You're almost more glad that the movie's over than glad that the McCarthy era ended fifty-plus years ago.
Movie Review: Guilty by Fact
Summary: 1 Stars
This is just another pro-communist film that tries to re-paint the 1950's as some type of ruthless time subjected by patriots against innocent leftists. The reality is that Hollywood was full of not only leftwingers but with hardcore communists as well. These people conspired with Soviet agents to tilt the U.S. to the Left and to aid the Soviets in their global war against the U.S.This film is pure lies in the way it tries to portray these communists as innocent filmakers. The reality is that they were quite guilty and the evidence demonstrating this was without a doubt quite valid.
There's nothing to see in this film that would relate to historical fact so don't waste your time.