Director Edward Dmytryk

Movies are grounded in myth and as such offer great potential ôfor alteration of reality, which is why both Lenin and Stalin considered it the most important of all art formsö (Billingsley, Commie Dearest). By the mid-1930s, the Communist Party turned to the world of culture as a means of propagating its views, and Hollywood became a natural milieu for propaganda. The American branch of the Communist Party, based in New York, wanted to use art as a weapon, encouraging ôwriters, directors, and even actors to portray businessmen and clergy in the worst possible light, urging writers to smuggle anti-capitalist ideas subliminally into their dialogueö and actors to portray the ruling class ôas decadent and parasiticö (Billingsley, Commie Dearest). Both the New York and Hollywood branches of the Communist Party attempted to have agitprop scripts made into movies. ôCorneredö is an example of how this process worked.

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hriller centered on a manhunt. Laurence Gerard (Dick Powell) portrays an ex-Canadian flyer who goes to Argentina to search for the Nazi collaborator who was responsible for his French wifeÆs death during the War. PowellÆs character is an excellent example of the post-War Film Noir anti-hero. Gerard meets an assortment of characters who could be the collaborator, including a community of Nazi expatriates. Gerald also searches for incriminating documents, and meets up with members of an anti-Fascist association who are trying to build a case against the collaborator and the network of war criminals. Gerard prefers to work on his own, and eventually his efforts pay off. ôCorneredö is not the type of movie that easily lends itself to expressing the Communist ideology as, for example, the 1943 film ôTender Comradeö that Dmytryk directed in which a group of war wives lived together in a large house where everyone shared and shared alike. But propaganda is not necessarily always direct. The purpose of propaganda is to promote one ideology and attack all opposing ideas and doctrines. Propaganda seeks to influence large groups of people, such as a movie audience, by spreading certain concepts by direct and indirect means. The film ôC
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