muriel smith

War, Racism, and Other Social Spasms in the Newly-Restored ‘Strange Victory’

War, Racism, and Other Social Spasms in the Newly-Restored ‘Strange Victory’

This important post-war film documents its convulsive recent past, ties it into a contemporary scene that we often forget was almost as convulsive and finally, unwittingly, links itself to still roiling convulsions of the film's distant future.