I’m trying to remember any subtleties in “The Best Years of Our Lives” that were leftist in intent. Can you enlighten me? I really liked that move :-0
I am recalling from memory, Barbara Branden's "The Passion of Ayn Rand" biography and in Barbara Branden's book some bank officer made an impassioned speech about the little people and then announced that all bank loans will be made without collateral. That was the example that Ayn Rand was thinking of. I no longer have the book so I'm not sure specifically what the speech was, but I do remember the anti collateral declaration. Ayn Rand used that as an example of Commies trying to sneak Communist messages into allegedly non Communist films.
The Commies in Hollywood kept anticommunism from being a message in films. Was there an anti Communist film during that time? Maybe "We the Living," but that was made in fascist Italy not Hollywood.
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In Sherwood’s script for The Best years, as Rand remarks, “a returning war hero is denied a seat on a plane, to make room for an offensive businessman who is obviously rich.” Later, the same hero “takes a job in a drugstore owned by a national chain, where he is treated unfairly, offensively and antagonistically.” Finally, “the picture denounces a banker for being unwilling to give a veteran a loan without collateral, a refusal which is treated as though it were an act of greedy selfishness.” Rand characterizes the last as “the all-time low in irresponsible demagoguery on the screen.”