Word: braved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home of the Brave" admits for the first time that there are in this country two classes of citizens, white and black, and that the black semi-citizens resent like hell being pushed around. Furthermore, they want something done about it--fast. But Negroes know that before they can be accepted as full citizens, they must first be recognized as real and complete human beings, with feelings that can be hurt and turned sour. Screen Plays Corporation and director Mark Robson set out to demonstrate this first truth without any mumbling or crossed fingers. What they want to show...
...timeless process of insult, hatred, frustration, collapse and final resigned slavery cannot be jammed into 90 brief minutes without showing the strain. "Home of the Brave" is a good motion picture. It is not, unfortunately, an excellent one, and its influence may be less than hoped for. In order to get their point across and make it somewhat palatable, which may or may not be a weakness, the producers have chosen to fall back on the ancient vehicle of psychiatry to explain the important issues. They have further disturbed the story of a young Negro surveyor alone among white soldiers...
...these are, in the long run, minor criticisms of style rather than content. The people who produced "Home of the Brave" and acted in it had something important on their minds, and they spoke it out with great clarity and courage. For James Edwards, who played the young Negro soldier, there can be nothing but the highest praise. He lived his part, as he has all his life...
...classics, except for Richard HI, stayed primly on the shelf. The experiments never got off the side streets. Box office was inclined to be moody. Hollywood had not been so tightfisted about Broadway in years: its most sizable purchase was Home of the Brave...
Home of the Brave. Hollywood's first crack at anti-Negro discrimination, delivered with the courage of its convictions (TIME...