Review-O-Sphere

  To see part 1, click here . Rock Around the Clock~Bill Haley & His Comets Around the World in 80 Days is another case of an Academy Award winner that is a decent, even good, movie but because it was declared the greatest movie of the year, it invites a degree of scrutiny that it cannot hold up under. This isn’t helped by the fact that there were a number of classics that came out in 1956. Let’s start talking about them, shall we? Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare (and subsequent Lavender Scare) perished in one of the most famous political downfalls of all time when the Senator from Wisconsin was publicly humiliated on national television, censured by the Senate and then drank himself to death, all without catching a single Communist spy. This, coupled with the Supreme Court overturning some of the HUAC laws, the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott and increasing demographic changes, meant that American culture did start taking a more liberal bent in the late 50s going into the 60s. 1956 has t