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Reviews 37% Audience Score 50+ Ratings Widowed librarian Alicia Hull (Bette Davis) becomes the center of a McCarthyist firestorm when she refuses to remove from her library "The Communist Dream...
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Reviews 86% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings In 1959, Ellie...
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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.
Storm Center is an underrated gem of a film, one of the best in Davis's career. There's an old adage in that when you talk about the Bill of Rights you're a conservative, when you actually try to put them in practice you're a radical.
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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- Daniel Taradash
- 1956-07-31
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. George N. Fenin Film Culture. A document of its times, this film is a much needed work of faith and hope. Its aesthetic, social and human values will...
Nov 12, 2022 · The first movie to directly confront McCarthyism! Or so said the editorials touting this ‘Long-Awaited Screen Event’ in which ‘Bette Davis Hits the Screen in a Cyclone of Dramatic Fury!’ The storm of the title was based on a real activist in Oklahoma who lost her job for promoting equal rights.
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Review by B E R T ★★★★ 1. Very much ahead of its time with what it’s saying about freedom of speech and censorship. This is only a small film, you can tell it’s low budget and not very cinematic, but there’s something nice about it, the performance by Bette is assured and nuanced, probably her best of the past few films, and the ...
