Bored on night shift and I am watching "Barabbas" with Anthony Quinn. The 50s and even early 60s were good for Biblical epics. At some point something changed but in our parents lifetime this was ostensibly not the case.
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it started during ww2
The Bolsheviks fled to America under FDR’s protection. Thus began the infiltration of Hollywood.
the Americans modelled their war films after nazi propaganda to sell war bonds
I agree this is a closer estimate imo. Somewhere right before or after. But then again, I’m not too knowledgeable prior to WW2. Idk, now that I think about it, Wizard of Oz had some goings on, but I don’t remember when that came out.
There’s a reason Judy Garland od’d. One of the guys in MGM (Mayer?) raped her. Also Shirley Temple was twisted
The producer in the godfather w the horse was supposed to be a pedo but those scenes got cut
Wolz, yeah...I have them in the chronological cut 'The Godfather Epic'
Iirc 1938