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18 April 1958 (USA) moreTagline:
The Girl Who Loves The Guy The Whole Town Hates!Plot:
While completing a class project, a law student inadvertantly uncovers evidence of corruption in city hall... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Cold War allegory about Communism in the Thirties moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Dean Jones | ... | Zachary Davis |
 | Joan O'Brien | ... | Mary Judson |
| Thomas Mitchell | ... | Mayor Dick Williston |
| John Smith | ... | Bill Reeves |
| Walter Abel | ... | Prof. Bowdin |
| Burt Douglas | ... | Ray Crowder |
| Anne Seymour | ... | Matilda Iler |
| Royal Dano | ... | Al Lees |
| Ted de Corsia | ... | Sam Lawrence |
| Peter Miller | ... | Carter |
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'Handle With Care' is not a great film but certainly an interesting one, at least in terms of its subliminal politics. A young, brash law student (Dean Jones, later a Disney regular) investigates city hall and uncovers a skeleton in the mayor's past. It seems that, back in '32 and '33, when the mayor (Thomas Mitchell) was county tax collector, he signed receipts for a lot more money in tax payments than was actually deposited, which suggests embezzlement. Come to find out, the good mayor signed phony receipts so that destitute farmers could keep their land during the worst years of the Great Depression. The crusading young lawyer, who happens to be an outsider to this close-knit community, is a stand-in for all leftist muckrakers and outside agitators who wish to discover the worst about "The American Way." The mayor, a kind of proto-FDR figure, bends the rules but still works within the system to assure the common welfare. Naysayers get their comeuppance and the system, though flawed, is vindicated in this classic repudiation of Thirties radicalism that came out at the tail end of the Fifties "Red Scare."