Mark:
"John Huston also directed Let There Be Light, a
semi-documentary film made for the government about the
effects of war on returning vets. Has anyone seen this
film?"
I saw it seven or eight years ago. It's a very good
documentary. As you may know, the officials turned the
picture down (Huston says that as a three-star general left
the viewing, all the others followed him and he was the only
to see it through) and it was more widely seen only in the
1980s. The war-time documentaries by Huston, John Ford and
William Wyler and others are more related to the social
realism of the 1930s, but one might argue that Huston's
pieces are somewhat noirish, especially
"The Battle of San Pietro" that is very gritty and not
squeamish showing soldiers dying (not on screen, though). The
officials didn't like that very much, either.
Try to catch these on video. John Ford's "Battle of Midway"
and Wyler's "Memphis Belle" are also worth your while.
Juri http://pulpetti.blogspot.com
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