92 years ago:
Quick Millions (US)
A truck driver "too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" gets mixed up in racketeering. Naturally his underhanded business practices make him a pillar of the community.
1931-04-17
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/159047
#QuickMillions #SpencerTracy #GeorgeRaft #LeonAmes #PreCode #ClassicMovies

📷 #Screenshot of actor #LeonAmes as "Leslie Harrington" in "Peyton Place" (1957), screening now @ #TCM.

Harrington is the richest man and main employer in a small #NH town before and after #WWII. A power-hungry must-win type with a wayward son-of-privilege.

In this scene, he's brag-lying to the assembled at an "All-American" Labor Day picnic about the business-labor partnership that has brought prosperity to the small town with big secrets. Ain't *that America.

#movies #propaganda