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...roll her political ideas off the dummy tongues of puppets masquerading as characters, Lillian Hellman has transformed her stage success of a few seasons back into an interesting as well as an intelligent movie. "The Searching Wind" is essentially a point of view rather than a story, but its propaganda is never prosaic...
...Miss Hellman says that the American tendency to look the other way during the prewar years had a lot to do with the war, and that our diplomats had better take off their blinders if we want peace. She says it by showing a diplomat, in the center of Europe throughout the twenties and thirties, but completely oblivious to the malignant growth of militarism. Constantly prodded through Miss Hellman by the woman he loves, but never marries, he continues blithely to believe in conciliation until the war breaks out. His wife, a social lioness, is equally calm. Both remain blind...
...Sylvia Sidney and Robert Young preached an, angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats in Lillian Hellman...
...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...
...Searching Wind. Robert Young and Sylvia Sidney in Lillian Hellman's angry film sermon against umbrella-carrying diplomats (TIME, July...