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J. Hoberman An Army of Phantoms, Cold War film series: Storm Warnings

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As a special follow-up series BAM invites critic J. Hoberman back after 2008's 30 years of J. Hoberman for the publication of his new book "An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War" and a special film series featuring 13 Cold War-era films.

(1951) Storm Warning directed by Stuart Heisler with Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan and Doris Day, www.imdb.com/title/tt0044075 .

Film description by J. Hoberman: 

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Warner Bros. social consciousness updated for the Cold War: Ronald Reagan plays a crusading DA battling to free a generic California town from the grip of the Ku Klux Klan (an obvious stand-in for the Communist Party).  Ginger Rogers plays a reluctant informer; Doris Day is a KKK dupe.

Showings at 6:50 and 9:15 pm.

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