Rob Preece wrote:
I'm straining my mind to come up with examples
(without much luck--where did I leave my memory), but there
were dozens of B movies from the 40s and early 50s that were
strongly hardboiled and carried profoundly socialistic
messages. The McCarthy-driven purge of the movie industry was
partly driven by these films. I'm not talking about Grapes of
Wrath here
(although that was a great movie, it was hardly
hardboiled).
*************** I would be willing to admit Grapes of Wrath
into the hardboiled genre. Maybe noir? There's a whole class
of screwed people in it.
But leaving that, Marxism was a popular theme in the thirties
and the forties. Probably the most overt one I have read was
Dos Passos's 42nd Parallel. There was passing reference to it
in Gresham's Nightmare Alley, when Stanley talks with a
communist riding the rails. Marxist thought is linked to the
title of Anderson's Thieves Like Us. A Marxist comment
represents Harry Morgan's last words in Hemingway's To Have
and Have Not.
miker
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