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Title: Sweet little movie but very dangerous for it's time
Review: The movie The Littlest Rebel was a very cute, sweet little movie- fun family entertainment. The story of a little ''Southern Belle'', and her mission to rescue her father from the Yankee Troups, and later execution. The plot is pretty standard, Shirley of course is a very cute, and a quite appealing young actress. But the film's message is slippery, even dangerous at times. Incorrectly portraying black slaves as carefree, happy, childlike and ignorant, this movie was one of many which reinforced the South's idea of a ''happy slave.'' This was dangerous considering that at this time segregation and discrimination were rampant in Southern cities. The movie itself is sweet and family-oriented, very worth seeing, but the film is symbolic of a very dangerous system and idea.
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