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This Bloody, Blundering Business

This Bloody, Blundering Business (1975)

January. 01,1975
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An incisive satire on U.S. foreign policy, THIS BLOODY BLUNDERING BUSINESS traces the history of American intervention in the Philippines following the Spanish-American War. A silent movie format with lively ragtime piano music is combined with a dramatically understated narration and excerpts from "newsreels" of the period to reveal the nature of American attitudes toward Third World peoples and significant parallels with contemporary American foreign policy.

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UnowPriceless
1975/01/01

hyped garbage

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Platicsco
1975/01/02

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

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HeadlinesExotic
1975/01/03

Boring

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InformationRap
1975/01/04

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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