Posted on 02/09/2008 4:42:35 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Last night I watched on cable for the first time, The Lost City. It was directed by and starred Andy Garcia. This movie was about a nightclub owner at the time prior and after the takeover of Cuba by Fidel Castro. It was the most realistic portrayal of the Fidelistas I have ever seen and therefore one of the best, if not THE best anti-communist movie ever made which is why it was shunned by Hollyweird.
Despite the rarity of anti-communist movies from Hollywood, there have been a few. Which of these anti-communist movies do you think is the best? Some of these movies were so campy, such as My Son John as to be FUnnie. Others, like Big Jim McLain starring John Wayne were just okay although there was one great scene where Wayne's VO talks about the James Arness character who was killed by communist thugs in Hawaii. Dr. Zhivago was more of a romantic flick than political although it did have some interesting portrayals of the Bolsheviks. Red Dawn was a good action flick but it was a bit too comic book to be a great anti-communist movie.
So I'll toss it out to you folks. Which film do you think was the BEST anti-communist movie ever made?
“Goodbye, Lenin” and “The Manchurian Candidate.”
My problem with adapted works like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, etc is that they have been taken to be warnings against a possible totalitarian US which was never the authors’ intent.
Orwell was critical of Socialism, specifically the abuses under Stalin but also the acceptance, tolerance, and silence by global Socialists of Stalin’s evil deeds.
There was a low-budget ‘50s film that was pretty good called HUK about fighting communists guerrillas in the Phillipines.
Brando’s THE UGLY AMERICAN was very anti-communist as was NICOLAS AND ALEXANDRA. Another low-budget ‘50s foreign film was THE RIVER CHANGES showing a village suddenly on the eastern European side of the river and the new authorities arriving to begin systematic oppression.
The Catherine Deneuve film EAST-WEST is perhaps the most powerful anti-communist and specifically anti-Stalin-era USSR film ever.
THE KILLING FIELDS despite its politically-correct U.S. guilt portrayals is still a powerful anti-communist film.
But my personal favorite is Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s FIRST CIRCLE which is really a brief mini-series produced by Canadian television.
“The Tunnel” (2001)
Based on a true story from the late 1950s, this thrilling drama looks at the extraordinary lengths taken by a group of West Berliners to dig a tunnel under the city’s barbed-wire border with East Berlin. Director Roland Suso Richter revisits a period of Cold War history that has so many twists and turns, it seems like fiction — except there really was a former East German swim star who led the tunnelers after rejecting everything that Communist Germany had to offer. Well done.
“In the Face of Evil: Reagan’s War in Word and Deed”
“Innocents Betrayed”
Documentary showing that “gun control” has historically been used to disarm citizens and make them helpless before governments commit genocide.
http://www.innocentsbetrayed.com/index2.htm
The Producers
The Spy that came in from the Cold.
The Hunt for Red October
“In the Face of Evil: Reagan’s War in Word and Deed”
I’d have to say I have never seen anything more powerful and accurate than that film. It was awesome from start to finish.
"A Russian! I love Russians! Comrade, I've been fascinated by your Five- Year Plan for the last 15 years.".....lol
Question re: Animal Farm, people. Which one would I like more? The 1954 one or the 1999 one?
Just saw The Lives of Others and loved it! Might I recommend two other excellent anti-communist movies for those of us who don’t shy away from foreign films:
REPENTANCE from Russia
and
BITTER SUGAR from Cuba (this movie stars an actress I never heard of named Mayte Vilan— DROP-DEAD GORGEOUS! NO LIE!:P)
Both movies are available on Netflix, btw.
Do you mean Jane Fonda? I have never viewed Henry Fonda as a commie pig. Enlighten me if you will.
Myeh.
I just finished watching One, Two, Three! What a hilarious movie! Billy Wilder is a genius! And modern-day filmmakers don't know their butts from a hole in the ground. That's why Hollywood today foists horrible comedies to the public like What Happens in Vegas and Maid of Honor. Wit is dead.
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