Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at 6:05:00 P.M. EDT
TCM is showing Gordon Douglas’ I Was a Communist for the F.B.I. (1951) on Friday Morning at 9:15 a.m. ET! They rarely show it.
Last year Eddie Muller had another Gordon Douglas film, Walk a Crooked Mile (1948) on Noir Alley. Eddie said Douglas was also the director of “the infamous” I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.
Frank Lovejoy gives one of his best performances as a man working undercover, pretending to be a Communist. Dorothy Hart plays a teacher who leaves Communism. Edward Millican portrays a Communist operative cynically using the dupes who fall for the party line and looking forward to the day the Communists own America.
More than almost any film it gives a picture of how Communists operate.
John Ford and Me: Please Send Money!
I’ve been writing on black supremacism since 1990, and on crime and policing for almost as long, but there’s more to life than crime and the lack of punishment. For instance, there’s beauty.
I’ve been working on a movie project for many years, and over the past couple of years have honed in on a John Ford (John Wayne) project.
Initially, I was particularly interested in (and still am by) The Searchers, Ford’s masterpiece of masterpieces, inspired by the Comanche gang-rape and massacre of the Parker Family at Fort Parker, Texas, and kidnapping of Cynthia Ann Parker.
More recently, I also became obsessed with a classic “miss” of his, They were Expendable, a 1945 drama about real people (though with the names changed), some of the officers and enlisted men of the first PT Boats in the Pacific Theater of Operations starting just before Pearl, and the nurse who fell in love with one of those men, though she spent the rest of her life denying it, and even launched a frivolous lawsuit, with which she cashed in, after The War.
I find it a challenge to do justice to Ford, because:
• He was in so many ways an awful man;
• He was in certain ways a marvelous, heroic man;
• Even some of those who praise him get crucial matters wrong;
• Late in his career, he underwent a moral degeneration, whereby he sabotaged his own pictures and burned his bridges with some of his surrogate sons; and
• The general gutter culture that has arisen in academia and the media, has a special John Ford Department which, if one engages it, can ruin a writer’s rhythm and drag him into the gutter.
There are at least two methods for financially supporting me.
One is using Zelle, the other is via VDARE.
P.S.: If you can’t presently afford to make a donation (or even if you can), please forward my blog items to friends and family who might appreciate them, and post links in Internet comment sections. Thanks in advance!
So far, I have signed up for Zelle for fundraising (since the PayPal and Payoneer disasters). If you have any other suggestions, please leave them at the bottom. Thanks, in advance.
1. ACCESS ZELLE
Get started by enrolling your email or U.S. mobile number through your mobile banking app or with the Zelle app. This is the Zelle access URL through Chase:
https://secure01b.chase.com/web/auth/enrollment#/enroll/onlineEnrollment/gettingStarted/index?LOB=RGBLogon
2. PICK A PERSON TO PAY
Enter the preferred email address or U.S. mobile number of the recipient. You can send money to almost anyone you know and trust with a bank account in the U.S.
[Add1dda@aol.com It will say, “Registered as Louis.” Louis is my first name; it’s the family curse, among manchildren. ‘Louis begat Louis begat Louis...’]
3. CHOOSE THE AMOUNT
Enter the amount to send. Your recipient (i.e., moi) gets a notification explaining how to complete the payment, simply and quickly.
Second, through VDARE:
Hit this link to VDARE’s donate page.
At the donate page, hit the circle saying “Earmark your donation.” That will open up a list of writers. I’m third on the list.
Donations made through VDARE are tax-deductible.
Let me know if you have any problems.
I thank you, and your posterity will, too.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Stix
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