The Male Animal (1942)

Directors

Elliott Nugent

Cast

Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson

The story

Tommy Turner is an English teacher at football-crazed Midwestern University. Although he is uninvolved with the politics of the day, Tommy suddenly finds himself the center of a free-speech debate on campus. An editorial in a student magazine praises him for planning to read Bartolomeo Vanzetti's sentencing statement to his class as an example of eloquent composition, even in broken English composed by a non-professional.

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