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1955: Love, War, and Tonal Clashes
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It's 1955, and the films get simple in both a pleasant and insulting way. The Academy chooses Paddy Chayefsky's quiet romance of two people deemed unlovable finding each other in Marty, while the audience goes for the tonally confused war movie Mr. Roberts, which tries to be both a wacky wartime farce and a somber reflection on service and ultimately manages neither. Ernest Borgnine enjoys Oscar History's second biggest glow-up, Jack Lemmon makes his debut, and our hosts are divided on how well the first one works. Listen now to find out if war might be bad, if homely people deserve love, and who sides with who.
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