I recently watched it for the first time last year and the only redeeming things about it were the film's main song and George Peppard. As a George Peppard fan from his later work, I thought his performance was good being cast as the "straight guy" in the midst of an idiotic, mindless romp.

Hollywood has spent well over a century creating and promoting racially offensive and rampantly stereotypical films, not only awarding Oscars to them, but designating some of the worst of them as "the greatest films of all time" (e.g., "Birth of a Nation (1915)" or "Gone with the Wind&quot . Ironically, the first "talkie" (non-silent film) "The Jazz Singer" was about a black-faced vaudeville performer in 1927.

All of this, over several generations, helped to create the situation we see today with the rise (once more) of white supremacy and white hegemony, because of the dearth of similarly stereotypical films about whites (like "Tobacco Road&quot , which when they existed, got pulled from mainstream view (outside of cable networks like TCM). Even films like "The Grapes of Wrath" (based off the famous novel), managed to soften the imagery of the poor white.

And the offensive imagery didn't just involve adult films, but were proliferated even more in animated fare shown to children through decades of cartoons and cartoon "shorts".

And when you protest this type of treatment (even today), the push-back is unreal. You might recall the controversy of the casting of the Broadway musical "Miss Saigon".

This country still has a long long long way to go.

and it must be galling to have an America strutting around acting superior to everyone.

We liberals tried to show folks how racism and ethnic hate hurts everyone. They decided we were being "politically correct" and set out to destroy us. Nobody's gonna tell THEM not to say the n word etc.

Sorry, it's going to keep happening now that they have killed progressives for a generation.