Word: vanzettis
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...when liberal and radical elements in Europe as well as the U.S. were stirred by the Sacco-Vanzetti case, he was consul at Geneva. One night an ominous crowd gathered in front of the consulate, shouted imprecations against "American killers." Tuck listened for a while, then slipped out to join the crowd, shouted in flawless French: "Give us the head of the American consul...
Poll-Tax State. Liberals rushed to his defense. Among them was John F. Finerty, prominent corporation lawyer and civil-libertarian. Suave, greying, publicity-shy Mr. Finerty had fought in other causes: notably for Sacco & Vanzetti, Tom Mooney...
...reading of Vanzetti's letter, omitted from the stage version, is much the highpoint of a fine evening. It is handled so subtly that it never disguises the true humor of the situation, and the audience does not forget that the same man who is talking for freedom played the very unacademic drunk. Olivia de Havilland leaves something to be desired as the professor's wife, but she still comes through in the clinches...
Playwright Thurber's hopelessly human hero is a blurting young English professor (Henry Fonda) who gets branded a Red because he wants to read one of Vanzetti's (of Massachusetts' Sacco & Vanzetti) letters to his class. The battle is joined when one of his wife's (Olivia de Havilland) old football-playing beaux, Joe the Twirler (Jack Carson), arrives at Midwestern U. for the big game...
...when he takes to liquor while his wife and Joe go off to the game together. In a hilarious drunk scene he resolves to hold his mate as a tiger does-by fighting for her. He does hold her-not with tigerish might, but by reading the trustee-forbidden Vanzetti letter to his composition class and becoming the college hero...