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...assertion: "I will not make my tiger a cat to please anybody." The old tiger was even more eloquent. In a swipe at the crusty Scottish father of Boswell (Kenneth Haigh) he roared: "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel!" After a round of bullying Oliver Goldsmith he purred: "Come, come, we offended one another with our contention. Let us not offend the company by our compliments...
...GOLDWIN GOLDSMITH...
...Lynn Larson, who holds a city job to fatten his lean income from a 2O9-acre farm near East Garland, Utah: "Under these federal programs, the farmers border on being crooks-always looking for loopholes, letting cattle graze on land put into the soil bank." Echoes Kansas Farmer Joe Goldsmith, a 480-acre man: "It makes cheats out of all of us. Some of them cheat more than others, and the big cheats benefit at the expense of those who are most honest...
When the moviemakers are through polishing up the brass, they tell the story of Bernie Goldsmith (Ernest Borgnine)-which is substantially that of Abraham Chasanow. After 22 years of governmental service. Goldsmith is abruptly suspended as a security risk. When the whispering campaign gets going, he is shunned by his neighbors as a Communist, but his friends rally round and. as a studio release somewhat mysteriously explains, "risk public approbation to defend his name." When his lawyer (Ray Milland) wins a hearing several months later, Goldsmith wins a recommendation for reinstatement. Ruling overruled...
...Goldsmith and his friends stage public indignation meetings, force the Navy (Dean Jagger) to reinvestigate the case. The second look reveals that all the information lodged against Goldsmith was obtained from his personal enemies or from well-known cranks (the studio, boldly risking public approbation, calls them "overzealous patriots"). In the end Goldsmith, like Chasanow, wins back his job, along with full back pay. Whereupon the moviemakers timidly but firmly point the obvious moral: in time of ideological war, when it is perhaps essential for the populace to be armed with intellectual weapons, there are bound to be some casualties...