Strange Victory

6.0

Genre: Documentary
Run time: 71 min
Premiere: 1948. September 25.

Director: Leo Hurwitz
Writer: Leo Hurwitz
Starring: Alfred Drake Muriel Smith Gary Merrill Saul Levitt

Strange Victory" is about racial bias in post World War II America. Following "Native Land" in Leo Hurwitz' filmography, it uses some of the same techniques: dramatized scenes interspersed with scenes of compilation news reel footage, and scenes of evocative imagery.