The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair
MovieTitle | The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Oct 1, 2022 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Greg Mitchell |
Production country | US |
Run time | 26 min. |
In 1934, famed writer and socialist Upton Sinclair swept the Democratic primary for governor of California, leading a mass End Poverty movement. To defeat him that fall, his opponents created one of the dirtiest, and most influential, campaigns in U.S. history, and Hollywood took its first all-out plunge into politics.