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Related: About this forumMr. Potter & the Commies of Bedford Falls - Fox News Take on 'It's A Wonderful Life'
From the Jimmy Kimmel Show.
exmodee
(37 posts)Enjoyed it very much, thanks.
appalachiablue
(43,065 posts)czarjak
(12,523 posts)Actual quote heard on FNN.
appalachiablue
(43,065 posts)sop
(11,544 posts)HUAC believed his movies' themes were part of a communist plot, and questioned many of the blacklisted Hollywood screenwriters with whom he was associated.
appalachiablue
(43,065 posts)sop
(11,544 posts)(First posted at BillMoyers.com in 2014) "When the movie first came out, it fell under suspicion from the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)...Among the group who produced the analytical tools that were used by the FBI in its analysis of Its a Wonderful Life was Ayn Rand.
"Rands group told the FBI:"
The purpose of the Communists in Hollywood is not the production of political movies openly advocating Communism. Their purpose is to corrupt non-political movies by introducing small, casual bits of propaganda into innocent stories and to make people absorb the basic principles of Collectivism by indirection and implication. Few people would take Communism straight, but a constant stream of hints, lines, touches and suggestions battering the public from the screen will act like drops of water that split a rock if continued long enough. The rock that they are trying to split is Americanism.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/its-a-wonderful-life-communist
appalachiablue
(43,065 posts)I need to read more about the activities of this period.