Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that is bearable: when they are excluded it ceases to be so. We often do not even hear of these movies. One of which we did hear was "Oliver Twist," a powerful and sensitive work of cinematic art. This was banned on the basis of vigorous protests by a Jewish group. That these protests were genuine and deep-felt was shown by the riots which this same movie evoked in Germany among the Jewish...
...need is strong for a pressure group representing the general non-violent, non-"anti-anti" public, but particularly the large bourgeois-intellectual group in Boston who see the foreign films. The formation of such a group to agitate heatedly against banning through the influence of any group--Catholic, Jewish, or Watch and Ward Society--would best he organized through the university and college populations of the Boston area. But however it be done, it is the crying need of the day. Paul W. Friedrich...
...black-marketeering colonel in Manila. But it is in the title story that Shaplen does his most explicit preaching. True to pattern, U.S. Army 1st Lieut. Robert Gordon is a man of good will and hazy intention when he gets to Macao on leave. He and a German Jewish refugee doctor help a striking native laborer who has been injured; for this, the doctor is murdered by local reactionaries, and the police are blandly indifferent. Lieut. Gordon leaves on the next steamer for Hong Kong, but at least he has decided which side he is on: when the British skipper...
Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, who talks with a bit of a brogue picked up during 21 years in Ireland (eleven of them as Chief Rabbi), flew to the U.S. as Chief Rabbi of Israel, to help with the $250 million fund-raising campaign of the United Jewish Appeal...
Home of the Brave (Screen Plays; United Artists), as a Broadway play by Arthur Laurents, described the crack-up of a Jewish G.I. who was a victim of race prejudice. The movie version, produced by the same small studio that made Champion (TIME, April 11), daringly substitutes a Negro in the central role. Home of the Brave is thus the first of Hollywood's new series of Negro problem films to cross the finish line...