This is an absolutely astonishing film, a libertarian, feminish critique of
Mussolini Italy gotten past the fascist censors under the cover of War Time anti-Communism, a demonstration of Rand's melodramatic strengths before they get encumbered by her anti-altruistic, hyper-free market hysteria. Wonderfully graced by the Vali of later THIRD MAN fame in her radiant youth and Rossano Brazzi a couple of decades before his windy turn in SOUTH PACIFIC. (Comes in two, sometimes separately titled, parts.)
Review of We the Living
We the Living
(1942)
The Best Film Based on a Rand Novel (an early one free of "objectivist" silliness)
13 December 2020