David Denby: Five Major Directors with a Mission
The spring of 1942 was a perilous time for Americans, caught, as they were, in a new war. The preceding December, the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. American troops in the Philippines were close to surrender. The Wehrmacht had advanced across Europe and into the Soviet Union and North Africa. Many people wondered whether the United States had a “crusading faith” to fight for...
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