[Borges]

Yes, I know, but "OUR DAILY BREAD" is a paean to Communist principles.

Again so was 'The Grapes of Wrath'. In many ways we are much more ecomonically conservative today then we were then.

STREET SCENE" was a play first and Vidor didn't write it. But it certainly is, IMO, a subversive movie and one which laid the foundations for the criminal as the "poor victim of society" !

That was part of a larger climate of thought at the time which included novels like Sister Carrie (as early as 1900) and 'Native Son'.In the latter, Richard Wright created a black teenager who kills a white woman in cold blood and then demands the reader understand the action as an inevitable product of his surroundings. What's ironic is that Wright later left the Communists and wrote anti communist essays.

[nopardons]

Yes, " GRAPES OF WRATH" is a detestable movie! O should have included that one as well. Thanks for adding it.

"SISTER CARRIE" didn't do the "society's victim" bit and was quite scandalous. The movie, made much later and "cleaned up" , also earned some condemnation.

But don't forget that Clifford Odets and many card carrying Commies came to Hollywood out of the extremely Commie, WPA subsidize GROUP THEATRE, in N.Y. and just continued pushing the envelope.

GAG.........I hated "NATIVE SON", which I was forced to read, for a college American lit class. :-(