Kortfilm: Don't Be a Sucker (1947)

En film från US War Department från 1947 (17:21)

Enligt uppgifter jag stött på producerades filmen för att motverka rasismen inom den amerikanska krigsmakten. Filmens slutreplik är: "Let's forget about 'we' and 'they'. Let's think about 'us'!"

I slutet av filmen kommer texten: "This film will not be shown to the general public without permission from the War Department". På ett amerikanskt filmforum, där filmen diskuteras, kommenteras detta av en skribent:

"I was very suprised to see the final screen, where the movie said it was produced by the War Department and not to be shown to the general public. Based on this, I take this film not to be a relic of New Deal liberalism, but to be part of Harry Truman's efforts to desegregate the armed forces, which was as ahead of its time as this film.

This makes sense, because a film like this would not have been tolerated in the segregated south, and would have been rejected by anti-semites (a very mainstream point of view even for the educated). The unusual perspective of this film makes it a fascinating attack on mid-century attitudes on the eve of civil rights and the cold war."