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Storm Center (1956) / Daniel Taradash | Bette Davis + Brian Keith + Kim Hunter + Paul Kelly + Kevin Coughlin | In the first overtly anti-McCarthyism film to be produced in Hollywood, Alicia Hull is a widowed small town librarian dedicated to introducing children to the joy of reading. In exchange for fulfilling her request for a children’s wing, the city council asks her to withdraw the book The Communist Dream from the library’s collection. When she refuses to comply with their demand, she is fired and branded as a subversive. Judge Ellerbe feels she has been treated unfairly and calls a town meeting. Ambitious attorney and aspiring politician Paul Duncan, who is dating assistant librarian Martha Lockeridge, uses the meeting as an opportunity to make a name for himself by denouncing Alicia as a Communist. His forceful rhetoric turns the entire town, with the exception of young Freddie Slater, against her. The boy, increasingly upset by the mistreatment his mentor is suffering and affected by the influence of his narrow-minded father, finally turns on her himself and sets the library on fire | Title sequence : Saul Bass

”... those wondenful people out there in the dark” / Norma Desmond = Gloria Swanson | Sunset Boulevard (1950) / Billy Wilder | movieclips @youtube

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The Ruins of Berlin / Friedrich Hollaender + Marlene Dietrich | A Foreign Affair (1948) Billy Wilder