Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle-aged Japanese couple, who clearly remember the days before Pearl Harbor, their young son's reaction to the historical film Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War was incredible. "Who were all those people?" asked the boy when he got home. "Who was General Nogi? I never heard of him." Fifteen years ago, every pupil would have known about the Japanese commander at Port Arthur. but to the present generation, such national heroes as Nogi might never have existed...
...Marxists. Each year Japan's publishers woo the teachers at "hot spring parties," and the teachers see to it that Marxist texts get adopted by their schools. One such text, Model Junior High Social Study, was edited by the author of the story that inspired the anti-American film Hiroshima, is nothing but a propaganda tract against capitalism and Western imperialism. Another book, Enlightened Society, carries the picture of the "great leader" Mao Tse-tung, describes Japan as "the problem child of the Far East" and a nation that has always been inferior to China and Russia. The Russian...
Escapade (Daniel M. Angel; DCA), true to its title, fails to quit when it is ahead. A British import based on Roger MacDougall's long-run London stage hit, the film gets on splendidly as long as it rambles puckishly in the classrooms and dormitories, spying on the rebellious antics of Ferndale School's mischievous boys. But when it suddenly converts its juvenile comics into a pack of stern little pacifists campaigning for world peace, it grows about as hilarious as a U.N. committee session on genocide...
...Strange One. From Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man)-a slick, sadistic thriller about a Southern military academy and a notable film debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...
...best when he evokes the look, the sound, the colors of each passing season. Before he finishes, he has sketched for Platero and the reader a charming and shrewd picture of Spanish life that has the delicacy of a pure lyric, the relentless candor of a reel of film. At the end, Platero is dead, victim of some poisonous root, and it is plain that Jiménez has lost a friend no human can replace...