Through interviews and narcosynthesis, the details of the mission are brought to view and these have a high suspense potential as well as tremendous emotional pull. The initial anxiety of the story is to find out what is wrong with the Negro soldier, returned from the mission in a state of paralysis and shock. And they conclude with a demonstration that all men are basically 'the same.'To make this demonstration, they have constructed a fascinating plot which combines a battle melodrama within a psychological mystery. They show the criss-cross of loyalties and antagonisms which occur in such a man, no matter what his religion or the color of his skin. Laurents-reveal in intimate terms the reactions of an individual who feels himself universally defamed.

But here the scriptwriter, Carl Foreman, has changed the character to a Negro without altering the basic resentments or conflicts suffered by the man - which, appropriately enough, is precisely the moral which the film would illustrate.For, in this drama of the relations of a Negro soldier with four other men on a perilous mission to a Jap-held island, Mr.

Laurents' stage play, the central character was a Jew - a Jewish soldier who went to pieces on a South Pacific island because of ingrained resentments and emotional shock. Its impression upon the national audience will be most interesting to gauge.In Mr. And it has not the slightest hesitation in using all the familiar, ugly words. It faithfully shows the shattering damage which racial bias ran do to one man. Kramer's picture comes directly and honestly to grips with the evil of racial defamation, which is one of the cruelest disturbers in our land. It opened yesterday at the Victoria for what should be a significant run.For Mr. The urgent and delicate subject of anti-Negro prejudice, often remarked in Hollywood movies but never fully discussed in one of them, is finally advanced with thorough candor as the major theme of an entertainment film in Stanley Kramer's ingenious production of Arthur Laurents' play, 'Home of the Brave.' And, to no one's surprise, the subject makes for a drama of force and consequence-a film of emotional impact as well as strong intellectual appeal.

Home of the brave play