Writer, Producer, and Director John Frankenheimer stated during an interview on National Public Radio's "Fresh Air" that during the portion of the brainwashing sequence shown from the perspective of black soldier Corporal Allen Melvin (James Edwards), he had a white actor dressed as a servant standing in the background as if prepared to wait on the black women at the gardening lecture. Given the racial attitudes in 1962, however, that particular shot did not make it into the final cut of the scene.
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Tanner 88 1988
In 1988 renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prizewinning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season and presented their media campaign as a ...
Tanner 88 features mockumentary, political, biting, cynical and realistic style.
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