Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past. Standing a stone's throw from the infamous Dachau, where a refugee camp now huddles, I listened to the booming voice of Franz Jilka: "Give us another war!" Jilka is one of three million Sudeten Germans driven from Czechoslovakia after the last war. He is an old Social Democrat, 64, grizzled, tough and thirsting for revenge. "Would I fight!" he exclaimed. "Give me the chance! All three million of us are waiting for the war-that is the only way we can get back our land. Give us the arms-and we will drive the Russians from Berlin...
...leadership is astute in aiming its assaults against positions in the non-Communist world that are indefensible, morally or practically . . . We need not laud or sanctify whatever or whomever Communism attacks, and our material support should principally serve to sustain, fortify and enlarge human freedom and healthy economic and social conditions...
Knock on Any Door (Santana; Columbia) carries an earnest but wobbly torch for a familiar social message. It also carries the imprint of a new independent called Santana Productions, partly owned by Humphrey Bogart. For his first effort as a producer, Bogart chose Willard Motley's bestselling novel, put Director Nicholas Ray to work behind the cameras, then walked around in front of the lens into the leading role...
...social propaganda Knock on Any Door is very nearly a dud. But with the rage, sweat, rhetoric and kinetic screen personality of Lawyer Bogart to pull it together, it becomes in the last few reels a fairly exciting courtroom drama...
...picture of inept and narrow public disservice that grew with each day of the hearing. The case they sought to make against Dr. Van Waters has boomeranged upon them disastrously, and will go down in history as a defeat for mangy and unprincipled politicking and a victory for progressive social welfare...