‘Hit the Line Hard’

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Leo McCarey’s 1952 film, My Son John, perhaps the most well-known of the several extravagantly anti-Communist melodramas engineered by Hollywood studios at the height of McCarthyism, opens with two brothers tossing a football outside their house before Sunday Mass. It’s the eve of their departure for the front in the Korean War, but a third […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/02/12/hit-the-line-hard/

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