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Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Quick Take: Born Yesterday (George Cukor, 1950)

"Legislation's not meant for buying and selling!" In Born Yesterday, a journalist fights corruption with the help of a plucky formerly ignorant citizen who educates herself about the issues. In the end the bad guys learn a lesson and the future of democracy seems assured. It must have seemed an almost believable plot in 1950...

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