Ed Rampell, Progressive Hollywood: a People’s Film History of the United States (New York: The Disinformation Company, 2005), p.105.
‘In Lindsay Anderson's 1973 O Lucky Man!, starring Malcolm McDowell, British imperialists meet with a Third World dictator for a presentation about foreign investment and labor conditions in the fictionalized African nation of Zinagara. British actor Arthur Lowe, in blackface, plays African strongman Dr. Munda. His economist narrates an audiovisual account of Zingara's free export zone, offering foreign investors excellent labor conditions: peon wages, the illegality of strikes, no income tax. Sir James Burgess (Ralph Richardson) asks if there's the “threat of insurrection?” Germanic Colonel Steiger shows another film, about a counterinsurgency campaign against rebels. The essence of the transaction is that Dr. Munda and Colonel Steiger want to grant Burgess the rights to construct resorts along Zinagara's coasts, in exchange for napalm which the African dictator will deploy against insurgents.’
Ed Rampell, Progressive Hollywood: a People’s Film History of the United States (New York: The Disinformation Company, 2005), p.105.
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