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Native Land

  • 19421942
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  • 1h 20m
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6.3/10
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Native Land (1942)
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Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. In... Read allPaul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. In dramatizations, we see a Michigan farmer beaten for speaking up at a meeting, a union man... Read allPaul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill of rights being under attack during the 1930s by union busting corporations, their spies and contractors. In dramatizations, we see a Michigan farmer beaten for speaking up at a meeting, a union man murdered in an apartment in Cleveland, two sharecroppers near Fort Smith Arkansas shot by... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
364
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    • Leo Hurwitz
    • Paul Strand
    • Leo Hurwitz
    • Ben Maddow
    • Paul Strand
  • Stars
    • Paul Robeson(voice)
    • Fred Johnson
    • Mary George
    • Leo Hurwitz
    • Paul Strand
    • Leo Hurwitz
    • Ben Maddow
    • Paul Strand
  • Stars
    • Paul Robeson(voice)
    • Fred Johnson
    • Mary George
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    Paul Robeson
    Paul Robeson
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
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    Fred Johnson
    • Fred Hill, farmer
    Mary George
    • Hill's Wife
    John Rennick
    • Hill's Son
    Amelia Romano
    • Young Girl in Cleveland
    Houseley Stevenson
    Houseley Stevenson
    • White Sharecropper
    • (as Housely Stevens)
    Louis Grant
    • Black Sharecropper
    James Hanney
    • Mack, union president
    Howard Da Silva
    Howard Da Silva
    • Jim - informant
    • (as Howard DaSylva)
    Art Smith
    Art Smith
    • Harry Carlyle
    Bert Conway
    Richard Bishop
    • Spy Executive
    Charles Jordan
    Vaughn King
    • Mary, Mack's wife
    Robert Strauss
    Robert Strauss
    • Frank Mason, grocer
    Dolores Cornell
    • Girl with Balloon
    John Marley
    John Marley
    • Thug With Crowbar
    • (as John Marlieb)
    Tom Connors Jr.
    • Joseph Shumaker
    • (as Tom Connors)
      • Leo Hurwitz
      • Paul Strand
      • Leo Hurwitz
      • Ben Maddow
      • Paul Strand
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      Feature film debut of Robert Strauss.
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    8/10
    Superb 1930s agitprop detailing attacks on Unions & The Bill of Rights
    This barely released piece of Left-Wing cinematic Op-Ed journalism fully lives up to its storied rep. Half documentary/half vignette-sized realizations on Capitalist & vigilante abuse against the Bill of Rights (with an emphasis on Union busting), it's remarkably effective as agitprop and remarkably advanced as sheer film-making. After co-lensing THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS/'36, Leo Hurwutz & Paul Strand spent five years putting this together which would have robbed the stories of their immediacy if Pearl Harbor & WWII hadn't already muted so many political controversies 'for the duration.' But modern viewers will appreciate the remarkably up-to-date documentary techniques and the recreations which anticipate movie styles later developed by Elia Kazan & Boris Kaufman in films like ON THE WATERFRONT/'54. Paul Robeson beautifully handles the exceptional narration, and watch for noted NYC blacklisted actors like Howard de Silva & Art Smith. But the real champ here is undoubtedly Paul Strand, a great photographer whose eye is unmistakable in three museum-worthy montage sequences showing Americans going about their daily lives and celebrating holidays on the street.
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    • Nov 4, 2009

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      • May 11, 1942 (United States)
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      • English
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      • New York City, New York, USA
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      • Frontier Films
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    • 1 hour 20 minutes
      • Black and White

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