This week the Loose Cannons watch Goodbye Uncle Tom (aka Addio zio Tom), the ultra offensive 1971 film that critic Pauline Kael called “the most specific and rabid incitement to race war.”
So what’s it about? Two documentarians go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South in order to film the slave trade. Is Goodbye Uncle Tom worthy of the Cannon canon? We don’t even know where to start!