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Point of Order
starring: Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph N. Welch
directed by: Emile de Antonio

Used Price: $15.98

Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781567301649
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 1567301649
Label: New Yorker Video
Manufacturer: New Yorker Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New Yorker Video
Release Date: February 16, 1999
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: New Yorker Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1964
Sales Rank: 26082

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- Point of Order!
First released in 1964, this invaluable piece of visual history places the fall of McCarthy-ism in lucid, dramatic context. While most of us have seen Boston lawyer (and Army counsel) Joseph Welch's pivotal repudiation of McCarthy ("At long last, Senator...") few remember what led up to it, which only heightens its history-making impact. It's fascinating to see smarmy McCarthy counsel Roy Cohn go up against Welch and Senator Stuart Symington on charges of currying blatant favoritism for Army enlistee G. David Schine (Cohn's lover). Watching McCarthy himself is spooky, as we have to wonder how a man like this could amass such destructive power. A must-see.

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- MASTERFULLY EDITED TO MAGNIFY McCARTHY'S MALEVOLENCE

The Army-McCarthy hearings in which the demagogic Senator, Joseph McCarthy, and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, were charged with having attempted to blackmail special treatment from the Army for their partner-in-crime, Private David G. Schine, took a total of 36 days. That's an awful lot of testimony, and it captured the attention of the American public like nothing before. It would be nearly four decades before the O.J. Simpson trial would equal its theatrics and stir up equal or greater interest among the people.

POINT OF ORDER is a distillation of those 36 days that rocked America, it is a great ninety-seven minute movie, an exceptionally well-constructed documentary in which producer and editor, Emile de Antonio, painstakingly pored over all of the testimony given in ... Read More

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- McCARTTHY 'SDOWNFALL-BUT NOT OF McCARTHYISM!
This DVD is a documentary taken from kinescopes (pre-video-tape tapes) of the key moments of the Army-MCCarthy hearings which took place in 1954.Senator Joseph McCarthy(R-Wis.),had made quite a name for himself by accussing almost(it seems) every liberal,and some not so liberal politician,pundit,high-brow,and intellectual of being "Red",in some way,of being an ally of"Uncle Jo" Stalin and the Kremlin.When he accussed the U,S.Army of deliberately hiding subversives,that was the act that sealed his fate.The highlight,of the documentary,is the confrontation between McCarthy and chief counsel for the Army Joseph Welch(later to gain even more fame as the Judge in the Jimmy Stewart courtroom drama,"Anatomy of a Murder)McCarthy after much goating by Welch loses this cool and brings up the membership ... Read More

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- McCarthy's Come-Uppance
Twenty years before the nationally-televised Watergate hearings, there were the nationally-televised Army-McCarthy Hearings. For 36 days in the early summer of 1954 much of the nation was glued to their old black-and-white TV sets, watching the unraveling of a demogogue whose reach had finally exceeded his grasp. De Antonio's film is something of a rare-bird within the documentary genre, in that he lets the protagonists tell the story without a narrator informing the viewer what they are witnessing. The optional feature of director's commentary lends an entirely new dimension to the film. A true masterpiece in documentary film-making.

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- Strong documentary
Interesting record of the Army V. McCarthy hearings.

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