You Can Change The World (1950)

★★★★★ · The Framework of a government by the people · rq52 · 2008-05-27

Excellant! I enjoyed this very much. The ideas presented here I wish would carry over; stating basically the individual is important and essential to the human condition.

★★★★ · I think some of the reviewers don't know their US history · helenhighwater · 2009-09-08

In 1951 the US film industry was still under the Hayes Codes and the main part of those censorship rules was that equality between blacks and whites was a bad unChristian thing not to be advocated for by the film industry. I don't know much about who these Christopher people who got this made were, but I take this to be a somewhat muffled call by the Catholic Church for people to work for racial fairness as the good American Christian thing to do. Since actors could end up with all their films banned in the South for such actions I think this was actually an act of courage on these folks'…

★★★★ · You Can Change the World. · richgoup · 2012-06-04

1951. Cast: Eddie `Rochester` Anderson (Rochester), Jack Benny, Ann Blyth, Johnny Burke, Bing Crosby, Paul Douglas, Irene Dunne, William Holden, Bob Hope, Father James G. Keller, Jimmy Van Heusen and Loretta Young. From IMDB. Remember: All men are created equal all over the world; the people of the United States are not better than the rest of the world. Peace for all the mankind around the Universe.

★★★ · My take on this · ohsnapiam56 · 2010-01-23

Well, I won't comment on the very obvious religious message here. But I will say that in some respects I agree with the writer below. That race relations were touched on (especially by Benny) and that the performers were listed alphabetically with Eddie Anderson's name at the top of the list tells me there was a call for racial justice included here. Jack Benny often made public service announcements at the end of his radio show, calling for racial respect and tolerance and speaking out against prejudice ( I am currently listening to his radio shows and it is interesting to see and read about…

★★★ · Not quite · Spuzz · 2008-05-30

This is not really made for TV, but is part of a group of films made by The Christophers, which is a curious religious movement that everyone got on the bandwagon in the 50's and 60's. There is another film in the archive, "Atomic Energy As A Force For Good". Skip Eisheimer has a very good Christophers film on his "Religion" DVD. So suffice to say, this aint classic TV.

★ · Hmmmmmm..... · bestpbx · 2009-09-03

I am a citizen of the USA. But, while I love my country and want to see it thrive, I think stuff like this is kind of misleading. The USA is NOT God's favorite nation. We are part of the world. A good part, but only a PART. He loves all mankind EQUALLY. The ideals addressed in the film are nice, but like another poster wrote, it is a little hard to take Christian values when they are being preached from the likes of child abusers like Bing Crosby who was also an alcoholic. Anne Blythe comes across just about as sincere as she did in her Hostess Cupcake commercials. Like I said, the ideals…