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Usually ships in 1-2 business days | | | | | | Title: Washington Merry-Go-Round Year: 1932 Studio: Columbia Pictures Director: James Cruze Actor 1: Lee Tracy Actor 2: Constance Cummings Actor 3: Alan Dinehart Actor 4: Walter Connolly Size and Orientation: 11" x 17" Portrait State-of-the art DIGITAL presses print eye popping quality! Stains and tears on the original posters have been removed so the posters look as sharp and true as the originals seen in theaters. Posters are printed on an acid free, heavy weight paper and arrive in a crystal clear display sleeve with a hanger. This Is an 11 inch x 17 inch Movie Poster Replica, Not A Jigsaw Puzzle | | | |
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| | Features | State-of-the art DIGITAL PrintPrinted on an acid free, heavy weight paperIncludes crystal clear display sleeve with a hanger
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A bit of realpolitic from a by-gone era Sep 12, 2008
Please note that this review is on the movie, not on the poster as offered here, since the actual film isn't listed on Amazon, no doubt not Amazon's fault, but this movie deserves to be made available on DVD and preserved for posterity.
I just saw this film last night on Turner Classic Movies, and all I can say is wow, what an impressive, early movie about the evils of political power and corruption, considering that this is almost 80 years later, and it's as unvarnished a look at politics as anything done decades later, such as Spencer Tracy's The Last Hurrah (which is much less cynical, actually), or All the King's Men. It just goes to show you that nothing truly changes under the sun.
But one must remember that this is now the midst of the Great Depression, and at the time the stock market in the spring of 1931 was down 90% from its peak in October of 1929, when the Great Crash started. Disillusionment with both politicians and financial leaders was widespread, as stocks plummeted and bank after bank failed, and the public even applauded outlaws and bank robbers such as Bonnie and Clyde and Willie Horton, who became popular anti-heroes relieving the venal, corrupt bankers of their ill-gotten gains. Their anti-establishment exploits were enthusiastically reported on and eagerly followed by the public in the mass media, another indication of how disillusioned the American public was with their leaders.
This movie vibrates with that disillusionment and cynicism, although in the end, the good guy underdog, through virtually heroic efforts, is ultimately able to triumph single-handedly over entrenched, corrupt, political power and create change for the better. The script and dialogue are superb, and almost as powerful as Clifford Odets would produce 25 years later in his famous The Sweet Smell of Success, a movie whose dialogue fairly singes the air, remembered long after the movie has faded. Produced a couple of years before the much more famous Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, it offers a far more realistic, cynical, and powerful picture of the little guy who takes on and triumphs over all odds against the powers that be.
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