For a few weeks in August, I watched a movie titled “Watch on the Lane” since 1943. It starred Bette Davis and Paul Lucas. Highly recommended.
I don’t talk much about the plot baekaze that develops as it happened.
Here’s a Wikipedia article for impatient people.
It took place in 1940 in Washington, DC or its suburbs. This is when the United States is not yet explicitly in the war with Germany.
Note two things that highlight two losses of our main economic freedom.
First, one of the characters needs to carry a large amount of money with him: Woold is translated to more than $400,000 today. However, he is not worried about being stopped by the police and facing the confiscation of almost certain assets.
Secondly, Subeone calls the airline and takes one of the characters on a flight to Mexico. She gives the name Ritter. That’s not his real name. But when he checks in with his ID’s name and name, don’t they understand it? no. There were no such checks.
In 1940 there was not only the long amount of money and freedom to carry people’s freedom to travel without being checked for IDs. I first travelled to the airline in the summer of 1969. In 1969, he flew from Winnipeg to Chicago and attended a meeting in Rockford, Illinois. I didn’t have long money but I was able to have it. Also, no one checked my ID. I just named the guy from the Northwest Orient Ticket in Winnipeg.
Interesting fact: Lillian Hermann, the author of the play, may have been a commune player. Screenwriter Dashiel Hammett was a commune player. Why is it interesting? This is what Wikipedia says:
Hermann wrote a clock on the Rhine in 1940, following the Nazi Soviet non-directional agreement in August 1939. Its title comes from the patriotic German sun, “Dai Wack am Rhine.”
Good for her.
Dashiell Hammett would not have written such a script in 1942 after community parties opposed Hitler.
