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...Griffith Films--Some short and early works. At CARPENTER CENTER, Sunday...
TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Guests: Lucille Ball, Andy Griffith, Wayne Newton and the Golddiggers...
...Birth of a Nation--Griffith in sheets, a classic. At 2 DIVINITY AVE. tonight only...
Extending this tenuous hypothesis, there isn't anything wrong in living with a sense of the twenties and thirties dervied largely from films. The prevalent social movements were depicted by artists possessed of style, social vision, and unshakeable personal morality. Griffith's prohibition film, The Struggle, offers an audience an extraordinary perspective on an era, as do Lang's You Only Live Once, Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, and of course Welles's Citizen Kane...
NONETHELESS, the potential for new formula exists in these films. We are familiar with the story of the country innocent corrupted by the wicked city, a plot-type appearing frequently from Griffith's Way Down East through Chabrol's Les Cousins. Hollywood has begun to alter this: the conclusion of the product-mongers appears to be that innocence--at least sexual innocence--no longer exists anywhere, certainly not in the country. Hollywood is probably right: God knows they helped make it that way, and God know there's no money to be made in innocence. The three runaways in Dreifuss...