Racism In The 1958 Film Kings Go Forth

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Love and war go hand in hand in the 1958 film, Kings Go Forth starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood. The plot involves two soldiers in World War II in France who fall in love with the same woman. The movie evaluated through English, psychology and theatre professionals, gives you a profounder look into the true meaning of the film. In the panel discussion, the three professors brought up several observations, essentially on Hollywood’s take on racism in the late 1950s. The film panel determined that the film shows an attempt to tackle racism by developing a plot based on Lt. Loggins a white soldier, who falls in love with Monique Blair an African American woman. However, prejudices was still evident by casting a white women to

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