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By ‘The Little Foxes’ THE LITTLE FOXES, a Samuel Goldwyn production. Writtén by skgllllnn i ' directed by William Wyler; photographed by Gregg Toland. Distributed hy RKG F ‘Radio Pictures. At the Radin Oity ion’ Melt - } By Miltofi* Meltzer ' ‘Transferred to the screen Lilhar Mellman’s drama of ¥The Littie Foxes” is an extraordinary social shocker. Movies are uncompromisingly honest and direct as this ar not made in Hollywood every day. Or every year, For th fleep importance of what it h . @ffective way ft says it it can stand in the same company with “ Grapes of Wrath.” | Take it any way you wil there is precious Hitle to which it can, easily be compared. How often has Fipllywood dared tell even some of fhe truth about rich people, about how they make their money? About thse rottenness, to be direct, that eats its way into the core of capl- telists’ lives? "Or lock at it from this angle. Where are the movies to counter- balance the lies of a “Gone With the Wind,” a “Virginia,” « “Mary- Jand."—all of them crude or subile masks expensively designed to con- _ @eal the diseased face of a dying * Southern aristocracy. Or place “The : . fiittle Foxes” next to the gentle jibes at the affectionately-termed “lousy rich” of “Philadelphia Story.” No ‘Uncle Toms’ in Film ' “- And see, too, how the many Negro’ characters in “Little Foxes” are drawn, and match them with whin- ing travesties like Stepin Frichit'r Hkes or caricatured Aunt Jemimar Wee “Hattie McDaniell's. * AN this ts imbedded in the rock- . bottom story of two brothers and a @ster whose common lust for money Bills everything decent in them- melvek and, thése around - them. : “Take us the foxes,” says the Ojd Testament, “the little foxes, that to say and the intensely chance and when they had pinched together enough they bought an mdtried their way into ownersh ef |b crumbling cotton plantation. li-srale success, When the mov. frs they are negctiating with Northern textile manufacturer for partnership in his factory, to be re- moved from Massachusetts where Wages are $8, to this Southern town where isnorant farmhands can be, hired for $3. Besides cheap labor they can offer the Northerner free. water mower, head by bribery of the’ E‘- te Covernor i ~ > conratcte the deal the brothers — * neei en equal investmest Irom | their -ister Recina, who can get it énly from her seriously sick hus- | band. Thee: three Hubbards are a family grov> unmatched on the gcreen for their ruthless grasping. | To get more mcnsy they will He and, cheet and steal. They will make thieves of their sons, broken- Spirited drunkards of thelr wives, and bargains of thelr daughters. “And when it comes to that point, “they wil] murder. The inevitable ‘development of the key situation * #eveals every ane of these acts. To; - mttain thelr end, brothers and sis- -tér commit almost every offense against hunian decency. And when _, they Have gotten what they want, . for the time, there is nothing left ‘ of them but a mind and s hand outsttetched for more. | f , This is_a clipping from of the pag SUNDAY WORKER for spolled the vi ofour vines hav : ‘ ind nner . WA eve seal tite + AUG 2 4 1944 _ hae er Miss Hell- Ocnoentrated in almost every line of ot Aivncod ot the Seat. 4) Clipped at the Fe teas UBDED of Government .™ Ten ebb ke 4 the Hubbard fam- a fom hues w ra n the South at the turn of the c logue and Bit of movement upon | persia the Soreciath tht Mind ot entury, Le, Hubbard were smell storeke: “pers alert for bheir big| oe iy - oT. ee Te te