Yellow Caesar
| Yellow Caesar | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alberto Cavalcanti |
| Cinematography | John Taylor |
| Edited by | Charles Crichton |
| Music by | Walter Leigh |
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Running time | 24 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Yellow Caesar is a 1941 propaganda film produced by Ealing Studios and Michael Balcon and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. One of the screenwriters was Michael Foot, later leader of the Labour party.[1]
Synopsis
Yellow Caesar is billed as an 'assessment' of the life and rise to power of the self-styled Il Duce, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Writing for the Screenonline website, Mark Duguid comments that the short "is an unusually direct piece of agit-prop and probably the most striking of the 30-odd propaganda shorts released by Ealing Studios during WWII."[1][2] The film traces Mussolini's years as a trade unionist thug and his role as a fascist demagogue.[3]
Reception
Whilst generally well received by British audiences, there were doubts about the film's reception in neutral Eire, where censors had previously refused to pass Charlie Chaplin's Great Dictator.[4]
Cast
- Douglas Byng – English Sympathiser
- Marcel King – Mussolini (voice)
- Sam Lee – Mussolini (voice)
- Lito Masconas - Radio Announcer
- Max Spiro - Mussolini (voice)
- Feliks Topolski – Cartoonist
- Jack Warrock - Mussolini (voice)
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