Anyone seen the crazy sounding 1968 movie "Mr. Freedom" ?

[darkstar]

A friend got a dvd-r of this jewel. With any luck, I'll get to watch this cinematic jewel tonight !

MR. FREEDOM (1968).
http://members.aol.com/shockcin/freedom.html

A ridiculous, gloriously misguided political satire in the guise of a comic book, superhero tale.

The brainiac behind this French-made, agitprop rollercoaster ride is director/writer/designer William Klein, an American expatriate turned fashion photographer, who also made FAR FROM VIETNAM, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, and appeared in Chris Marker's LA JETEE. Kitschy as hell and filled with pseudo-futuristic trappings, it's also a field day for hardcore U.S. bashing.

Yet even when it sucks (and that's often), it sucks in such a freaky, wrongheaded way that I fell in love with it...The first few minutes are astounding. As rioting takes place in the streets, a U.S. sheriff (John Abbey) enters his secret closet (not-so-subtly hidden behind a wall-sized American flag) and becomes the ultra-patriotic crimefighter Mr. Freedom. In truth, he looks more like a red, white and blue WWF reject, complete with football shoulder pads and a catcher's mask. He then crashes through an innocent black family's window, blasts away with his guns, stands on their dining room table, and sings his theme song ("We'll always beat 'em,/ With star-spangled freedom."). Alright! This 'hero' is also a total lemming, of course, spouting his militaristic rhetoric ("Might is Right. And Right is Freedom.") and following the imperialistic orders of Doctor Freedom, the M-style administrator at Freedom Inc. (played by Donald Pleasance, who only appears on a TV screen).

More at link

[autorank]

1. Can you buy this anywhere? I'm surprised I missed it!

But then again, I don't remember much of that entire year. Hmmm...

[darkstar]

2. My buddy got it off of ebay, I think.

Will see if it's one of those semi-regular "auctions" since it's a dvd-r.

Thanks for getting back to me re: your DU handle the other night. I didn't see your response until the following day when clicking on "my posts" and didn't want to kick some thread off page 4 back to page 1(things move fast these days!), nor did I want to stalk you to your indox.

Anyhow, it's all coming back to me now, the hero representing drama/trauma of parental separation anxiety and such.

As for me, I'm mostly that Grateful Dead song, but also a little bit of some sort of black hole gravity well something-or-other out in deep space.

:hi:

[autorank]

3. Cool

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