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Unrelenting and gratuitous violence, nonstop bloodletting paraded across the screen at volumes so deafening that we had to keep our fingers in our ears throughout the entire film. The movie is too long, and way too thin on plot; there are too many characters to keep track of, and by the end we were so weary that we didn't care whether the hero lived or died. Is it too much to ask for an engaging and thoughtful plot?

A sloppy and mawkish propaganda piece. In this movie, any intimations about anyone being different because they are Jewish -- from any Gentile's hesitations, to glances, to stammers, to verbal missteps, etc. -- are presented as unforgivably vicious anti-Semitism. The message is that Jews are to be unreservedly regarded as being the same as anyone else. So what's the problem? The problem is that they regard themselves as being "a people apart," and then, when anyone in this movie joins them in regarding them that way, they are promptly denounced as vicious, nefarious, un-American, etc. This wealthiest and most powerful and influential of all groups in the U.S. wants to have it both ways: they want to have all of those perks, and victim status also. Even in the 1940s, they were immensely influential in the Media and Hollywood, and this movie is a reflection of their powerful presence. The movie suggests that even "good Gentiles" often harbor an "inner racist" that must be overcome, and this tactic has continued into modern times. Voice any criticisms about Israel's slaughter of Palestinians, and you'll immediately be charged with being anti-Jewish. State legislatures have even banned boycotts of Israel and have passed edicts designating criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic. These efforts won't ultimately survive our court system, but they make it clear who is holding the whip in modern Media. As Voltaire once wrote: "To learn who holds authority over you, determine who in your society cannot be criticized." This movie deals quite a lot with the topic of anti-Jewish discrimination in hotels. My grandmother was the Credit Manager at one of the most prestigious hotels in the country during the period in which this film is set. I asked her about the film three decades ago, when I came across this movie. She said there was racial segregation that had been customary and/or codified for many generations (black people went to hotels run by black proprietors) but aside from that no one ever bothered to ask about anyone's ethnicity or religion, and the only thing weighing heavily on hotel proprietors' minds was how to make a buck. Who was the author who once said that all art is some form of propaganda?

Do some research. This was apparently a propaganda piece, created at the request of the Anti-Defamation League, and written by one of Kennedy's employees, Myer Feldman, in conjunction with attempts to liberalize U.S. immigration laws. The book was apparently written with the assistance of historian Arthur Mann, who was allegedly supplied by the ADL. Kennedy's actual participation in writing the book was later described as "minimal." The book was promptly followed by a gutting of existing U.S. immigration laws, and an opening of our floodgates to massive immigration influxes from all over the planet. At the time when the liberalized immigration laws came into effect, promises were made in both Congress and the White House that the legislation would not radically alter the U.S. or result in a reinvention of its demographics.