Mrs. Iselin:
[at meal time] I'm sorry, hon'. Would it really make it easier for you if we settled on just one number?
Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: Yeah. Just one, real, simple number that'd be easy for me to remember.
[Mrs. Iselin watches her husband thump a bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup onto his plate]
Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: [addressing the Senate] There are exactly 57 card-carrying members of the Communist Party in the Department of Defense at this time!
(from IMDB)
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I owe Rep. Allen West of Florida--his recent proclamation that he knows of 80 Dems in Congress who are harboring secrets (gasp!), immediately reminded me of the great classic film The Manchurian Candidate (see dialogue above for the scene that parallels West's), and I had an excuse to peruse film trailers.
If you haven't seen it, please do so--it is so good. Great cast: Angela Lansbery (of Murder, She Wrote fame), Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey, Janet Leigh (Jamie Lee Curtis's mom), and the wonderful James Gregory (Inspector Luger on Barney Miller) who portrays a character-type that seems to pop up in real life around election season. Still one of the smartest, most entertaining, thought-provoking films to this day (its back story alone makes for a good story as the film was pulled from theaters after the JFK assassination and wasn't seen for years).
I couldn't find the entire scene on youtube but here is a trailer for the film: http://youtu.be/4fop7Go_csU
*History buffs will, of course, be reminded of McCarthyism . . .
Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: Yeah. Just one, real, simple number that'd be easy for me to remember.
[Mrs. Iselin watches her husband thump a bottle of Heinz Tomato Ketchup onto his plate]
Sen. John Yerkes Iselin: [addressing the Senate] There are exactly 57 card-carrying members of the Communist Party in the Department of Defense at this time!
(from IMDB)
* * * * *
I owe Rep. Allen West of Florida--his recent proclamation that he knows of 80 Dems in Congress who are harboring secrets (gasp!), immediately reminded me of the great classic film The Manchurian Candidate (see dialogue above for the scene that parallels West's), and I had an excuse to peruse film trailers.
If you haven't seen it, please do so--it is so good. Great cast: Angela Lansbery (of Murder, She Wrote fame), Frank Sinatra, Lawrence Harvey, Janet Leigh (Jamie Lee Curtis's mom), and the wonderful James Gregory (Inspector Luger on Barney Miller) who portrays a character-type that seems to pop up in real life around election season. Still one of the smartest, most entertaining, thought-provoking films to this day (its back story alone makes for a good story as the film was pulled from theaters after the JFK assassination and wasn't seen for years).
I couldn't find the entire scene on youtube but here is a trailer for the film: http://youtu.be/4fop7Go_csU
*History buffs will, of course, be reminded of McCarthyism . . .
Turns out McCarthy was largely correct about his charges. Most of those people were on the Kremlin payroll.
ReplyDeleteeven Elia Kazan, I bet . . . so, are you suggesting that Rep. West is on to something that the liberal media is ignoring?
ReplyDeleteHaven't heard about what West is saying.
ReplyDeleteKazan went before HUAC not McCarthy. He fingered others that joined the Communist party like him. He was punished by the Hollywood elites for cooperating with the Republicans. Just one of the many myths about Joseph McCarthy, I guess.
yes, he was punished--so, let me get this straight: you're here to defend Joe McCarthy? wow.
ReplyDeletebtw, I should mention that Charlie Chaplin, et al attending meetings for the communist party doesn't frighten me like it might others . . .
I've never seen a tape of the man in action, but I think Joe McCarthy is a case of the message being lost in the messenger. His arrogance and brutality were his undoing, not his information. The myth is McCarthy brutalized innocent people. The Russians have confirmed they weren't so innocent. His ego became the story and the history. The fact that the Russians had spies in influential positions in our goverment has been largely ignored.
ReplyDeleteAlan West may be making a similar mistake.