Song of the South

Gregg Toland and Ruth Warrick from Citizen Kane, Foster from Gone with the Wind, Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus.

The NAACP sadly mistook the whole business. Patricia A. Turner’s analysis is a misrepresentation.

“Obedience and truthfulness” debar Uncle Remus from the plantation, loyalty and truth bring him back. But these are the finer points that escape critics.

Crowther liked the cartoons, which are brilliant, but didn’t care for the rest of it.