Saturday, September 12, 2009

Radio review – CP#25 – “American Cavalcade” (1939) **

Orson Welles and a once-famous theatre star Cornelia Otis Skinner play a couple who adopt a kid from Europe – who speaks in a very strong American accent – and explain to him what it means to be an American. From the sound of it you’re probably already going "uh-oh" and you’d be right, although to Welles’ credit (he wrote the script) his history of America touches on Indians being kicked off the land, slavery and the suffragette movement. Welles and Skinner play a number of different roles, none that memorably.

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