Nowadays ,you can find any informations you need on internet,but in the fifties, as the characters say , it was to be found in the library which is the center of the town.
Although the screenplay is not thoroughly convincing with its spectacular finale , the movie brings up a much-debated subject :the unfair power of censorship ; the rapport the librarian has with the boy is excellent in the first part ,less so afterward .Did they need an auto-da-fé of sorts (which reminds one of the dirty deeds of the Nazis ) to get their message through ?
The movie is a plea for tolerance , even a preposterous book has his place ,weren' it to show it's preposterous (hints at " Mein Kampf" ) , a manifesto against the witch hunt ,which the presence of Kim Hunter reinforces ( the marvelous actress who created Stella in " a streetcar named desire" was actually blacklisted ).
Bette Davis is true to form in an unusual part and one feels her love for books ,be they political or by such classical writers as Andersen,Swift , Stevenson or Dumas .
Although the screenplay is not thoroughly convincing with its spectacular finale , the movie brings up a much-debated subject :the unfair power of censorship ; the rapport the librarian has with the boy is excellent in the first part ,less so afterward .Did they need an auto-da-fé of sorts (which reminds one of the dirty deeds of the Nazis ) to get their message through ?
The movie is a plea for tolerance , even a preposterous book has his place ,weren' it to show it's preposterous (hints at " Mein Kampf" ) , a manifesto against the witch hunt ,which the presence of Kim Hunter reinforces ( the marvelous actress who created Stella in " a streetcar named desire" was actually blacklisted ).
Bette Davis is true to form in an unusual part and one feels her love for books ,be they political or by such classical writers as Andersen,Swift , Stevenson or Dumas .