Monday, March 6, 2023

“Ignorance pays off”

Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy (Franchot Tone) wonders where the payoff is. How can a hate group make money? His future brother-in-law, newspaper reporter Charlie Riggs (Myron McCormick), explains. From Jigsaw (dir. Fletcher Markle, 1949):

“Forming an organization. Membership dues, badges, buttons, magazine subscriptions, donations. Even uniforms. Any effort to exploit the anti-this or ‑that. Any race or religion they can use as a scapegoat. Ignorance pays off, Howard, and the profits can climb into millions.”
As a twice-impeached defeated former president well knows.

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