gentleman and not have see my son john and i give it a rating of 10 and base purely on suspicious ignorance . i be suspicious of the criticism . one reviewer here say that the film be direct against those who would overthrow american middle class life and which be a strange trivialization of the animus inform stalinist communism and a political reality that have already murder some 53 million people by the time my son john be make the figure give by demographer grigory dyadkin in his unnatural death in the soviet union and 1928 1953. many of the reviewer appear to agree that this film as well a flagrant anti stalinism be bad and bad and bad and though they split a bit on the quality of the performance . one contributor attack the entire career of helen hayes and have her at the nadir of her non art in the film under discussion while another reviewer give her performance a grudging nod . same with dean jagger . i suspect that the film be a good deal well than the politically motivated reviewer on this forum would have u believe . but even if the film stand out for it odoriferous fume in a vat of year old flounder and i do not care for the assumption of several of the critic . the truth be that although hollywood have handle nazism well and it have never come to grip with the phenomenon of stalinism it enormous death camp and it man make famine and it surreal rendering of reality to a captive population . some jewish writer bemoan that the holocaust have have no solzhenitsyn to tell the story a he do of the soviet camp across the three volume and 2 and 000 page that be the horror and gore of the gulag archipelago . the other side of the coin be that hollywood have never attempt to render stalinism and it mega murder to a western audience . there be no film about darkness at noon while no dramatization of the long walk while no attempt to capture the despair of kolyma tale . let me suggest that a hollywood producer might be able to make something of viktor kravchenko i choose freedom . there be scope in the work for epic and plenty of pathos . it might work commercially . yours and larry parr kuala lumpur and malaysia .