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Agee, James | August 5, 1944 issue

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In the article, the author focuses on the motion picture "Dragon Seed," starring Walter Houston. It is good to be shown, even sketchily, the mutually enriching sources of the reverence and contentment and fortitude of an old and upright man, his land, his wife, his sons, his grandchild. It is good to see this natural piety of his, and his sense of the sovereignty of the family, yield so slowly and with such pain to the imperious force of mere generalized community, and to see for the first time in a film even a little of the enormity and anguish it is for a family to destroy and to abandon its home and its farm.

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DRAGON Seed (Film); MOTION pictures; HOUSTON, Walter; FAMILIES; SUFFERING; FORTITUDE
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