Moments of Movie Wisdom: Printing the Truth in the Wild West
Commentary
If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you value The Epoch Times’s commitment to truth and tradition. It’s almost as hard today to find reliable, honest news sources as it is to find decent entertainment. Thankfully, just as The Epoch Times offers an alternative to the mainstream media for truth-seekers, movies made during Hollywood’s Golden Era remain a refreshing source of clean, inspiring entertainment, which offers uplifting life lessons as well as diversion.
Today’s moment of movie wisdom comes from “Let Freedom Ring” from 1939, a musical set in the Wild West starring operatic baritone Nelson Eddy and soprano Virginia Bruce. The scene takes place 36 minutes into the 87-minute movie, when young lawyer Steve Logan (Eddy) and his sidekick, the Mackerel (Charles Butterworth), steal the town newspaper’s printing press and kidnap its corrupt publisher, Underwood (Raymond Walburn). Steve explains how greedy politicians can work the system for their own benefit, but as long as there is one newspaper that prints the truth, the American people won’t be conquered….