Review of A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) by Richard Brody for The New Yorker — 23 Apr 1999
The movie offers, amid its hectic and rowdy melodrama, a constant and underlying vision of the crucial power of government to serve the public good—and the ease with which that power can, almost invisibly, be shifted to the unfair advantage of the rich and the connected.
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This review of A Lion Is in the Streets (1953) was written by Richard Brody and published by The New Yorker on 23 Apr 1999.
A Lion Is in the Streets has generally received mixed reviews.
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