The Radio Literacy Project's visual media committee, the HumanitiesFilm Forum, seeks to post commentary, encourage the diversity of, and publicly show films, videos, and photo essays.
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53. Them! (note this is not the science fiction Them!, but
rather the television political play from the early 1970s.
69 The Night They Raided Minsky's
Finished 1968 A young lady jumping from her harsh Amish home to a dance opportunity in Manhattan's 1925 Lower East Side is warmly taken into Minsky's "Poor Man's Follies", for a tour. Her otherwise hopeless talent of miming bible stories hatches a plot to humiliate a city raid on the burlesque show, brought on by a NY Society for Supression of Vice antagonist. Her neccessary preparation to find a real city job is stormed away by kindness, a speakeasy gangster who takes her for his not nice lady, and a lead comedian who flips hard over from an easy score to forcing her to return on the train with her controlling father. The film extensively uses multimedia of film clips, arcade cards, black and white onto color film, a gramophone record and invents a film-as-cracked paint effect to turn the live into the moving past. Minsky's has a huge number of sub themes, the most prominent is the volatility of the human condition. Actor Bert Lahr turned volatile(died) in the making and the original Roland Barber based story was pieced into a seamless movie with many ploys resembling the movie A Thousand Clowns (film 120). Every performer glimpsed in this movie had a comlimentary role and Minsky's safeguarded the featured National Wintergarden Theater from NYC development for future generations. 10 stars. PK
