Wednesday, January 08, 2025
More on Pride of the Marines (1945), involving some of our favorite people!
[“On Friday Morning Early, Catch Two World War II Classics from 1945: God is My Co-Pilot, on Claire Chennault’s Flying Tigers, and the Great Garfield in Hawks’ Pride of the Marines; the Fun Begins at 6 a.m. ET, so Get Up Early, or Set Your DVR!]
By RM
wednesday, january 8, 2025 at 7:55:00 p.m. est
More on Pride of the Marines (1945), involving some of our favorite people!
The most striking thing in Pride of the Marines is a frightening nightmare scene involving blindness, devised by Warners’ montage unit (I looked up the credits and couldn't find any indication of who actually created the scene). Was surprised to learn that Albert Maltz, of the infamous Hollywood Ten, co-writer of the classic Naked City (1948), was the screenwriter. Here’s his bio (You’ll enjoy this- John Wayne and Ward Bond get into the act!):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Maltz
Of Karl Marx, he says, “...the noblest set of ideals ever penned by man...” which was going to end “...exploitation of women by men, the exploitation of people of colour by white peoples, the exploitation of colonial countries by imperialist countries…”
Three “ideals” that destroyed Civilization As We Knew It.
-RM
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I'm just glad to have lived in Grand Rapids pre-2001,which was still a normal city. Safe where Whites lived,which was 90% of the city. Now it isn't safe in the entire city because mex and blacks have gone into many neighborhoods over the past 24 years. A couple small pockets of pure White territory,but that's all.
I told this story before. In 1967,I was a youngster. There weren't blacks on my(West) side of town AT ALL. They lived in the original ghetto in the Division/Hall area(southeast).
When the riots broke out that summer,the guy next door--a 250 lb baseball fan with a wife and five kids told us one sunny day: "If those nig*ers come across the river I'm going to bash their heads in with these baseball bats."
And he would have. Turned out,the city kept the nigs in their own area via police. The city did not allow them to cross the Grand River Bridge.
Today,they're here. And the neighbor is long gone,but I liked his attitude.
--GRA
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