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During the 1950s, a small-town librarian is shunned by the locals after she refuses the City Council's request to remove a book on Communism from the ...
Storm Center is a 1956 American film noir drama directed by Daniel Taradash. The screenplay by Taradash and Elick Moll focuses on what were at the time two ...
Storm Center
1956 ‧ Drama/Melodrama ‧ 1h 26m
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Widowed librarian Alicia Hull (Bette Davis) becomes the center of a McCarthyist firestorm when she refuses to remove from her library "The Communist Dream," a book seen by her town council as incendiary anti-American propaganda. Condemned at a...
Release date: July 31, 1956 (USA)
Director: Daniel Taradash
Story by: Daniel Taradash; Elick Moll
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Produced by: Julian Blaustein
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Widowed librarian Alicia Hull (Bette Davis) becomes the center of a McCarthyist firestorm when she refuses to remove from her library "The Communist Dream," ...
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A movie that was brave for its time and, sadly, is all-too-relevant today. An accurate portrayal of small-town prejudice and political manipulation. From the ...
A widowed librarian becomes the center of a censorship controversy during the 1950s when she refuses to remove a book off the shelves. Subtitles: English.
This film is about a small town's efforts to ban a book in the local library. At first, the librarian is willing to play along with the city council's decision ...
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The Movie Man. 4.0 out of 5 stars. Bette Davis champions freedom of expression. Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2022. “Storm Center” concerns the ...
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Politicians go after a small-town librarian when she refuses to ban a book. She's quickly labeled a Communist.
Duration: 1:26:02
Posted: Jun 20, 2022
Posted: Jun 20, 2022
Screen: 'Storm Center'; Bette Davis Star of Film at Normandie
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IN their film called "Storm Center," Julian Blaustein and Daniel Taradash have tackled a theme that is drawn from the coals of smoldering conflict and ...