Special Agent (1935)
7/10
"Alex Carston" is a "successful businessman" . . .
7 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers
. . . who views his fellow American customers as "saps" and "losers," SPECIAL AGENT reveals. As you would expect from the always eponymous Warner Bros., SPECIAL AGENT warns the USA to be on the lookout for sociopaths who claim to be "above the law." Carston is depicted by Warner Bros.' prophetic prognosticators as a serial tax cheat, just like the current strongman of Today's rump cushion gang. Carston has a history of running gambling joints, the identical pursuit of the rump cushion don. While scheming for ways to shake down EVERY U.S. citizen, Carston lets his slimy tentacles feel out any private sector of the economy he can latch onto, with one single thought (which just happens to presage the motto of the rump cushion mob boss:) "What's in it for me?" Warner uses SPECIAL AGENT to warn us that a man such as Carston can lie his way into the White House, declare himself to be the Law of the Land (while appointing "Yes Men" of ill repute to the SCOTUS), and "joke" about being "President for Life." No doubt Carston did just that in SPECIAL AGENT's first draft, which was rejected for being too foreboding and depressing.
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