Strange Victory
Cast & Crew
Leo Hurwitz
Alfred Drake
Muriel Smith
Gary Merrill
Virgil Richardson
Cathy Mcgregor
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The film discusses post-war religious and racial bias, particularly against Catholics, Jews and African Americans, and maintains that this discrimination makes the recent war-time victories seem hollow. The roots of World War II and Hitler's rise to power are traced. Footage from the war's end is shown, as well as scenes depicting the Nazi concentration camps and other atrocities of war. Because of Jim Crow attitudes, the film states, African Americans will find little or no place in medicine, aviation, architecture, engineering or big business.
Director
Leo Hurwitz
Cast
Alfred Drake
Muriel Smith
Gary Merrill
Virgil Richardson
Cathy Mcgregor
Sophie Maslow
Jack Henderson
Robert P. Donley
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
This film was apparently the only one produced by Target Films, Inc. The film's title comes from the narrator's statement that the United States' victory in the war was "a strange victory with the ideas of the loser still active in the land of the winner." According to the New York Times review, compiled footage was taken from "newsreels, fact films and Russian pictures." According to the Variety review, new material was shot in and around New York City. The Variety reviewer also noted that the "menace of Communism" is not addressed by the film. An updated version of Strange Victory was released in 1964. That version added the voices of Martin Luther King, John Lewis, Boyard Rustin and other civil rights leaders.
