Press: Lynching

Why not make in Mexico and show all over Latin America a cinema based on a typical U. S. lynching, with no ferocious detail or bestial fact omitted?

In Mexico City this question was put last week by urbane, sardonic El Excelsior, newsorgan of Mexico's ruling class. "Here is a splendid opportunity for our infant film industry," declared El Excelsior, tongue in cheek. "A splendid opportunity also to effect that international reciprocity between Mexico and the U. S. that one hears so much about! What spectacle could be more imposing, more instructive...

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