Red Hollywood Page #6

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strong denunciations of

fascism at every opportunity.

Joan Bennett discovers

the man she married

is a Nazi sympathizer,

and a pre-war trip

to his homeland

turns into a nightmarish

political education.

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

Can't you make them

get out of the way?

It doesn't do to

irritate storm troopers

on the loose.

Well, what goes on?

(WOMAN LAUGHING)

(SOBBING)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

I don't get it.

It's a

brownshirt blitzkrieg

against old people

and kids

Jews?

No, in this instance

they're Czechs.

There's quite a few

of them who live down

in this quarter.

Hey, you see that

garbage truck?

ERIC:
The bully boys

bring their own filth,

dump it, and make

the Czechs clean it up.

(WOMEN LAUGHING)

A charming

little pastime.

(LAUGHING)

(CROWD LAUGHING)

(SPEAKING GERMAN)

(CURSING IN GERMAN)

MAN IN MOVIE:

But you don't understand...

NARRATOR:

By early 1941, a number

of Hollywood films

had alerted

American moviegoers

to the threat

of Nazi Germany.

It was these films,

and especially

The Man I Married,

that first aroused

the suspicions

of Congress about Hollywood.

WOMAN IN MOVIE:

Everything.

(MOVIE SOUNDTRACK PLAYING)

MAN:
Speaking before

a crowded Reichstag,

in a desperate attempt

to regain confidence,

Adolf Hitler...

NARRATOR:

Two committees traveled

to California to investigate

warmongering in

the motion-picture industry.

But Hollywood could claim

that it spoke for a nation

that had already

turned irrevocably

against Hitler's Germany.

Thank you.

(MEN CHANTING ON SCREEN)

(HISSES)

(CHANTING CONTINUES)

RADIO ANNOUNCER:

A report has just

come in that the Japanese

have bombed Pearl Harbor.

Jim, where is

Pearl Harbor?

Pearl Harbor?

Oh, it's down

the Jersey coast,

near Atlantic City

someplace.

Can't be, the Japs

are bombing it.

I know where

Pearl Harbor is.

We had it in Geography.

Oh, it's one of those

men from Mars programs,

the Japs just got

through telling

Roosevelt they love us.

RADIO ANNOUNCER:

We interrupt this program

with news of

grave importance

to every American.

Look.

War broke with

lightening suddenness

in the Pacific today.

Without warning...

Doesn't it smell good?

Shh!

...waves of Japanese planes

attacked Hawaii this morning.

Bombers blasted

at Pearl Harbor,

at the city of Honolulu.

The initial attacks caused

widespread damage and death.

Full reports

have not yet come in.

But one thing

is already certain,

the United States

is at war with Japan.

Stand by.

Dinner's ready.

War, what do ya know?

Are you going

to war, Daddy?

Are you going

to be a soldier?

Come on and sit down,

the roast will get cold.

We're at war, honey,

the United States

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