abcdefg wrote:No, wait, I don't know if I've fully acknowledged the meaning of the word, but would Fury and The Ox-Bow incident apply?
Not sure, I haven't seen either of them.
ShogunRua wrote:Really, any film by Frank Capra, who was a noted conservative director. Especially Mr Smith Goes to Washington.
Conservative then is reactionary now, and libertarian would be like the politics of the devil now. And Capra's films all had a healthy dose of saccharin anyway, and don't get me started on Jimmy Stewart or It's a Wonderful Life. I do remember Lost Horizon being good and was sort of and anti-utopian.
Additionally, there is a very sneaky undercurrent of this in many of Sidney Lumet's pictures whether it's Network or his various cop/court dramas.
Lumet had a pretty wide range of subjects, but Network definitely.