Point of Order!
1964 documentary Point of Order! is a strange one for a number of reasons. It’s not really a documentary at all, in some respects, but more a recut, a redux, of some blurry, black-and-white live TV footage shot by CBS of a senate hearing that had happened ten years before. Second up, it’s not really about what it purports to be about. Ostensibly it’s a hearing into the strange case of David Schine, a private in the US Army who had become the focus of a baffling tug of war between Senator Joseph McCarthy and his counsel Roy Cohn on one side and the US Army, in the shape of US Secretary of … Read more