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Apparently heartened by the varsity's 28 to 26 victory over Colgate last Saturday, the CRIMSON's Far Eastern football expert. Hu Flung Huey oCC, stated last night that he will return to football predictions...
...adaptation of the Adria Locke Langley best seller of the same name, A Lion is in the Streets is patterned on the career of the late Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. It is a much freer version that the recent Academy Award-winning All the Kings Men and a much less convincing one. While All the Kings Men depicted an era and a people as well as Willy Stark, A Lion is in the Streets portrays only Hank Martin, a character divorced form his context. For this reason it lacks much of the color of its black and white predecessor...
Based on Adria Locke Langley's 1945 bestseller, the film is laid in an unspecified "cotton-growing state" that is readily identifiable as Huey Long's Louisiana. Demagogue Cagney, married to a Yankee schoolteacher (Barbara Hale) and deep in an affair on the side with a swamp siren (Anne Francis), mounts the first rung of the political ladder by accusing a wealthy cotton-ginner of short-weighting the local farmers. When one of his followers kills a deputy and is shot, in turn, while awaiting trial, Cagney grabs headlines by haling the dying man into court and insisting...
...story and gives it a bogus air by putting long-winded rationalizations into Jefferson's mouth. Southern violence has always had a heady appeal for Warren, and villainous hotheads seem to have some lien on his sympathies. Even in All the King's Men, the Huey Long-like Willie Stark was perhaps handled with too much solicitude. Now, in Brother to Dragons, Lilburn's crime is so hedged in by sympathy that it sometimes seems as if poor George should have been proud to be dismembered by so tragically troubled a man as Lilburn. Says Author Warren...
McCarthyism has a parallel in modern history, and it is neither Hitlerism nor Huey Longism. In the late '20s and early '30s, Prohibition monopolized public discussion in the U.S. and luridly colored the European view of American life. An overwhelming majority of the U.S. people came to recognize that Prohibition was a mistake-but before Repeal in 1933, the opponents of Prohibition had exaggerated its evil effects as widely as the most fanatic Drys had exaggerated the evils of drink...