Why was Hollywood so anti-American? It was hard for me to get into Buster Keaton's The General for that reason--Buster plays an engineer who desperately wants to join the Confederate Army and start killing Americans. And look at Gone With The Wind, the racist Hollywood epic glorifying the enemies of America.
I'm sitting here now watching a silent comedy set in the Civil War. I don't recognize anyone in it. A Confederate soldier is given the job of traveling North as a spy and stealing gold from the U.S. government.
We see a general and another man give the guy his task while a battle rages in the distance.
"This will be a secret between the three of us," the general says.
The third man is struck by a stray bullet and falls down dead.
"You mean, the TWO of us!" says the smiling soldier.
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