A
1917 silent film about the
Revolutionary War directed by
Robert Goldstein, the owner of a
costume shop in
Los Angeles. He was tried and jailed under the harsh terms of the
Espionage Act because his film prominently featured the
atrocites of the
British, our
allies in
World War I. After three years in jail, he moved to
Europe but failed to find success there. The luckless Goldstein probably died in the
Holocaust, a victim of both
American and
European anti-Semitism.
"I am merely a lone man suffering a great wrong for no reason whatever, can you refuse to help me obtain justice? I have never done the slightest thing to warrant this persecution and prejudice against me, which denies the very right to exist. What, in the name of common sense, can be the reason for such wanton injustice?"