![]() Only in the last 40 years have we learned that's NOT the way it is. Most of the American population accepted that that's "the way it is". Al Jolson made a career of blackface and never regretted it for a minute. I'm sure that before he died Bing too winced a little bit at that number, but taken in the context of history it was to be expected. ![]() The State would have made it for you and "you Will like it"! As the "black face" routine was showing I turned to my family and said that I was sure that despite the "classic" status of this film there were probably a lot of people wincing as they watched Bing Crosby with burnt cork all over him. Without them we would be yelling "Seig Heil" today and would not have the right to critique a simple movie. It was a time of danger, not necessarily from within society itself (as now when crime makes streets unsafe) but from the outside with dictators killing millions while they battle for world domination. The innocence was that of the children and the general public who could take a "standard Hollywood plot" at face value. It was a time of greater innocence, greater danger and greater racial discrimination. ![]() ![]() 58 years? Yes! Reviewers who fault this movie for it's patriotism and display of martial force in the midst of a "holiday" movie are obviously too young to know what the world was like when this was made. It is amazing how much the world has changed in the last 58 years. ![]()
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