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Film notes
Klawans, Stuart | February 5, 1990 issue

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The article presents information related to motion pictures. "The Plot Against Harry," was filmed in 1968 and rescued from ruin twenty-one years later, when it was premiered at Toronto and New York Film Festivals. This film was written and directed by Michael Roemer and photographed by Robert M. Young. It failed to secure release in 1960s for two main reasons. These reasons were that its comedy was utterly deadpan and its moral vision utterly equivocal. Its story concerns a racketeer trapped into respectability by his Jewish family but its obsession is the way people presented themselves to one another in fashion shows and telethons, lavish weddings and tacky bar mitzvahs, fundraising parties and televised Congressional inquiries.

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MOTION pictures; PLOT Against Harry, The (Film); ROEMER, Michael; CULTURAL industries; ORGANIZED crime; JEWS
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