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...only film industry which seems to have overcome its skittishness over politics is the Italian. Bellochio, Petri, Pontecorvo, Bertolucci have all made films which transform tough social criticism, by passion and human perception, into art. Even Italian hacks, like Montaldo of Sacco and Vanzetti fame, are hacks on a higher plane. If American film is to mature, its maturity will come from those able to confront Kramer's value system and erase its sigma from socially-conscious flimmaking. As Robert Steel said (in New American Review...
...Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard, Lowes Dickinson inquired "Is immortality desirable?" Ferris Greenslet, a biographer of the Lowells, has stated that he almost thought it was, if only to get at the truth of the Sacco-Vanzetti case...
...What if the witnesses from South Braintree that the Prosecution knew would positively identify Sacco and Vanzetti as the wrong men had independently stepped forward...
...none of these events occurred, and the result may have been unsought and undeserved martyrdom for a shoe-worker and a fish-peddler who happened to be Italian immigrants with radical sympathies. The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti was undoubtedly the most significant of this century. Its world-wide repercussions rivaled those of the Dreyfus case in France. for the larger part of a decade it commanded the interest and emotion of millions of people both here in America and throughout Europe...
...have finished. Thank you" --Bartolomeo Vanzetti, April 9 1927 Conclusion of his speech before sentencing in Dedham, Mass...