The other Hollywood film about John Brown is "Seven Angry Men" (1955) with Raymond Massey playing Brown again. This movie covers Brown's career in Kansas through Harper's Ferry and is much better than "Santa Fe Trail" in its depiction of Brown, but he is still portrayed as a fanatic; James Edwards does not play his role as a stereotyped black laky, and is shown as fighting for the liberation of his people. Artistically the movie is not at all notable, and it is not particularly nuanced, but it's an improvement on "Santa Fe Trail."
Quentin Tarantino announced that he was going to make a pro John Brown movie after he got pushback for "Django Unchained" but never did, and Raoul Peck also announced that he was going to make a John Brown film. I hope that Peck follows through since "The Young Karl Marx" was a pretty good movie. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2200): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2200 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77280031/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
