The SinaiFree Film Society will discuss the feature film “The Best Man.”
The midterm elections offer the perfect time to reflect on the gift that is our democracy, its fragility, and how one person’s decision can make all the difference. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay for this 1964 film, in which Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson battle as political adversaries during an unnamed party’s presidential convention. The website “Old Hollywood Films” describes it as “both a fascinating time capsule of the backroom politics of the 1950s and 1960s, and an all-too relevant morality tale…There are no heroes in this film…just two deeply flawed men who are running for an office which they are, in very different ways, unqualified to hold.”
The film can be viewed for free here on YouTube. There are four DVDs in the Westchester Library System, and two DVDs in the New York Public Library.
The SinaiFree Film Society will discuss the feature film “The Best Man.”
The midterm elections offer the perfect time to reflect on the gift that is our democracy, its fragility, and how one person’s decision can make all the difference. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay for this 1964 film, in which Henry Fonda and Cliff Robertson battle as political adversaries during an unnamed party’s presidential convention. The website “Old Hollywood Films” describes it as “both a fascinating time capsule of the backroom politics of the 1950s and 1960s, and an all-too relevant morality tale…There are no heroes in this film…just two deeply flawed men who are running for an office which they are, in very different ways, unqualified to hold.”
The film can be viewed for free here on YouTube. There are four DVDs in the Westchester Library System, and two DVDs in the New York Public Library.
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