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Storm Center is a 1956 American film noir drama directed by Daniel Taradash. The screenplay by Taradash and Elick Moll focuses on what were at the time two very controversial subjects— Communism and book banning —and took a strong stance against censorship. The film stars Bette Davis, [1] and was the first overtly anti- McCarthyism film to ...
Storm Center: Directed by Daniel Taradash. With Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly. During the 1950s, a small-town librarian is shunned by the locals after she refuses the City Council's request to remove a book on Communism from the library's shelves.
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- Drama
- Daniel Taradash
- 1956-07-31
Sep 19, 2008 · However, Lawrence Quirk, author of Fasten Your Seatbelts: The Passionate Life of Bette Davis suggests otherwise, noting that after Storm Center she was not offered any "decent feature" roles until Pocketful of Miracles in 1961. While this could be attributed to her struggle to redefine her career as she aged, Quirk does claim that Hollywood ...
- Daniel Taradash, Carter Dehaven Jr.
- Bette Davis
Bette Davis extols the virtues of books and libraries in Storm Center (1956) Most infamous of these outside of Hollywood were the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg (1953), but the Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon test in 1949 (RDS-1) surprised the American public, and influenced popular opinion about U.S. national security.
Watch Storm Center with a subscription on Prime Video. Widowed librarian Alicia Hull (Bette Davis) becomes the center of a McCarthyist firestorm when she refuses to remove from her library "The ...
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- Daniel Taradash
- Drama
- Bette Davis
Jun 20, 2022 · An old Betty Davis movie filmed in Healdsburg California my grandmother is in one of the group scenes so I'm kind of partial to it anyway here you go storm c...
- 86 min
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- Timothy Taylor
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During the 1950s, a small-town librarian is shunned by the locals after she refuses the City Council's request to remove a book on Communism from the library's shelves. 39 IMDb 6.6 1 h 25 min 1956.
