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Great Swindle, The (Part II) (1948)

1948 · Ephemeral film · 7 min

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Synopsis

A man can't understand why prices on everything have suddenly risen sky-high. He mentions it to his grown son, and is told that the main reason for the price hikes on everything is monopolistic business practices that push prices artificially high so companies can make bigger profits. The main is somewhat skeptical about that, so his son takes him to his local union hall, where he learns that his son was indeed right, and is also shown how the union movement can help to bust these price-fixing…

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Details

Released
1948-07-16
Running time
7 minutes

Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★ · Bull! · Spuzz · 2003-07-02

At first, onbe might consider 'The Great Swindle' a great expressionustic work, for the first 10 minutes of this film features a man so confused about people's opinions of why prices are so high that he literally crunches his hand in his face. He then goes home to his son (?), both, curiously, are violinists (they do a duet in one scene). The son complains to Dad that none of this price fixing would go on if everyone was unionized. "Bull!" says the Father. (they say "bull" a lot in this film, oddly). The son figure convinces Dad to go to a Union Meeting. When they get there, they (and we_ see…

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