I enjoyed most of this film. And took it out on DVD because of what others had said about it. I know it was released in 1949. But I was surprised to hear the word n•••••r used three times, in the end of the film, in a deliberately derogatory manner. That's the only thing that spoilt it for me.
shareI was born in 1963 and the rhyme in the film is exactly how myself and my friends recited it, living in a small Welsh town we had no idea what the N word meant. It was all a different time, in that time religion wasn't an issue either, no one made a big song and dance about their beliefs the way the do now, times change, deal with it.
shareThe film is a product of its time and hence reflects the language used.
Its that man again!!
You've got to laugh. People watching movies made over 60 years ago and expecting them to conform to contemporary notions of political correctness. Can they really be so lacking in perspective? Ever heard of context?
shareThat's probably one of the most stupid things I've ever read on IMDb. There's nothing "racist" in the usage of the word in the film. It sounded 100% appropriate and inoffensive for the time the film was made as it was an innocent word back then.
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it's how the rhyme went. Also, in those days, in the Uk at any rate, the n word was not considered particuarly derogatory. it is used quite frequently in novels of the period for instance. Agatha Christie famously named one of her novels after a rhyme with the N word in the title, though the title was later changed to And Then There Were None.
share'twas a sign of the times....
shareI remember reading a book written in the 70s in the UK about movies and the N word was in there one time. i was surprised. But it was not written in a derogatory way. still, there was a late example of the word being used in a rather mainstream book.
that was over forty years ago . Now it's a different world.
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i was shocked too. it should be re-dubbed.
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