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.