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...REMARKABLE ANDREW - Dalton Trumbo-Lipplncoff...
...Saving is a spiteful, wretchedly written tract by great, aging Theodore Dreiser (The Titan, An American Tragedy), who lives in Hollywood, lectures to California's women's clubs. The Remarkable Andrew might well be Dreiser's tract scripted into a novel by its author, Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo...
...Dalton Trumbo is one of the leaders of Hollywood's socially-conscious set. His 1939 novel, Johnny Got His Gun, depicted the mind of a soldier who survived Flanders without legs, arms, sight, hearing, even without a face. It was as sharp as bloodied barbed wire, retchsome as the smell of gas gangrene, it was a gruesome refutation of Patrick Henry's naïve views...
...There's nothing worth dying for. ... I would trade democracy for life. I would trade independence and honor and freedom and decency for life. . . ." Unlike Survivors Hemingway, Cummings, Remarque, Graves, etc., anti-war Novelist Trumbo saw nothing of World War I. The Remarkable Andrew is a further effort to avoid seeing anything of World...
...plot is about the return of the ghost of General Andrew Jackson to help an admirer. Trumbo's General Jackson agrees with Theodore Dreiser right down the line: 1) Europe's wars are no concern whatever of the U. S.; 2) the U. S. has little interest in the British Fleet; 3) Great Britain is not a democracy; 4) if Hitler can't even cross the English Channel, he can't cross the Atlantic; 5) U. S. concern with fifth columnists is hysteria; 6) Ger many is not "an international outlaw"; 7) the U. S. didn...