28-11-2013, 07:42 AM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:I don't know how many fans of the genre we have here, but most of the Italian directors who made these films (like Sergio Leone) were leftists and radicals, and they deliberately subverted the American Western to make statements about capitalism, racism and imperialism.
Which is why the headlines saying "President Plans World Wide Peace Drive" and "FDR To Go To Warm Springs" is a little too close to home in 1965 in '36 Hours'. It may be coincidence but it sounds like left-leaning Hollywood movie makers expressing thinly veiled hints about JFK.

