by Jack Nilan            EMail : jacknilan@yahoo.com


Storm Center (1956)


Movie Grade C-

McCarthyism Connection Grade B+

McCarthyism Connection
The first explicitly anti-McCarthyite Holly-wood movie, Storm Center took five years to reach the screen. Davis plays a small-town librarian who refuses, on principle, to remove a book called 'The Communist Dream' from the shelves when the local council deems it subversive. (Time Out Review).
"was the only film of the decade to speak out directly, if somewhat guardedly, against McCarthyism." (CNN Special)

Genre
Drama