This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major movie moguls who controlled the studios shared. Through clips of various films, the filmmakers illustrate the dominant themes like that of the outsider, the outspoken American patriotism, and rooting for the underdog in society.
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R.H. Thomson as Narrator
Neal Gabler as Himself
J. Hoberman as Himself
Arthur Tracy as Himself
Bernard Avishai as Himself
Hasia Diner as Herself
Thomas Cripps as Himself
Richard Kozarski as Himself
Judith Balaban as Herself
Cass Warner as Herself
Robert Rosen as Himself
Bob Thomas as Himself
A.C. Lyles as Himself
Aljean Harmetz as Herself
Jonathan Rosenbaum as Himself
Les Friedman as Himself
Irene Mayer Holt as Herself
Daniel Selznick as Himself
Betty Lasky as Herself
Betty Warner Sheinbaum as Herself
Jim Zukor as Himself
Stephen J. Whitfield as Himself
Edward Dmytryk as Himself
Abraham Polonsky as Himself
Walter Bernstein as Himself
Bruce Cohn Curtis as Himself
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