Right or Wrong? (Making Moral Decisions)
Right or Wrong? (Making Moral Decisions)
NR | 01 January 1951 (USA)
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A group of young boys break some windows at a warehouse. The security guard recognizes one of them as a neighborhood boy, Harry. Harry is hauled into the police station and told things will go easier on him if he tells who his accomplices were. Harry must decide which is better, shouldering the blame for the entire incident or ratting out his friends.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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Gurlyndrobb

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

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Lidia Draper

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

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Beulah Bram

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

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Robert W. Anderson

One of the reviews of this short film try to tie it to the McCarthy Hearings going at the time this film was. That's an ignorant and probably intellectually dishonest take on this film. This film is simply meant to make school age children, and maybe a few adults, think about their own moral values. Very few things are as basis as right vs. wrong. The boy was involved with an act of vandalism. Did he do anything? You have to watch the film to know. This film is about a number of adults who demonstrate their values by the way they act. And in the end the boy is left with a decision to make. Is this a technological tour de force? No! But it is a very good film at creating conversation about an important topic. A society that doesn't know right from wrong would be a horrible place to live. And if you did live there. You probably wouldn't live for long. Because if you don't know right from wrong you also can't value life and property rights. It's common is 2018 to dislike the cops, to steal at will, to abuse others property, just generally abuse everyone else's rights while doing anything you care too. This film would be sure to start a long conversation in any group of two or more viewing it. One reviewer thinks it right and proper that this probably isn't being shown in schools anymore. I think children should see it quarterly during the school year, every year. All low votes up to this time are disheartening. Because those a votes for chaos in society.

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bkoganbing

The cast is unfortunately lost to history in this short subject which does have some interesting things to say about moral choices we make. Unfortunately the production values are as thin as dental floss and the conclusions heavy handed to say the least.A couple of interesting assumptions are made in this film. The police to handle the juvenile in question once he's identified call a member of the kid's church. No one in 1951 questioned the moral authority of a church in these matters. So the first offender after breaking a window at a warehouse is given over to a church representative. Better than juvenile attention I think, but still an interesting choice for the times. Secondly and even more important the last choice is left up to the kid as to whether to rat out his fellow offenders. In 1951 when we were trying to identify members of the Red conspiracy within our midst, informing was a very political issue. You KNOW what this film wants the kid to do.I doubt this film would be shown today to a school audience.

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Steve Pulaski

If nothing else, the Coronet Instructional Films short Right or Wrong? (Making Moral Decisions) brings a keenly subversive style to instructional videos, offering an incomplete short so that the bulk of the weight is left on the audience in terms of judging the main characters' decisions and overseeing the ultimate fate of its lead character. The short's story revolves around a young boy named Harry, who is caught by a shopowner for throwing rocks at his storefront with a group of friends. Being that the shopowner only knows Harry, he informs local law enforcement that he was the one doing the vandalizing, leaving the remainder of the boys still at large.Right or Wrong? focuses on the police's efforts to bring Harry to justice. During the course of the ten minute film, we often stop and hear the eternal thoughts of the characters before they make a certain decision. For example, we hear the shopowner's mind race as he contemplates whether or not to notify the police about Harry, who's father is a good friend of his, or hopefully cease this kind of behavior from the youth by getting the police involved. When the police finally show up on Harry's doorstep, his mother goes through a mental debacle of whether or not to let the police inside the home, contemplating saying Harry isn't home.These kinds of situations make us active moviegoers, which is a plus for a company as basic and thoroughly unremarkable in its moralist ways like Coronet Films so often is. Right or Wrong? actually forces us to construct some of the pieces of the puzzle ourselves rather than have it handed to us. On top of that, this is actually a grittier short than many of their other ones, willing to showcase such relatable circumstances for young kids, such as sticking by your friends and remaining loyal to them despite quietly repressing your more moral, realistic side. Right of Wrong? (Making Moral Decisions) may have the kind of squareness that most Coronet films have, but it refreshingly subverts its style for something more memorable than most of its predecessors.Directed by: Judson T. Landis.

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boblipton

Bad, mostly, as an example of film-making. This Coronet educational short subject was intended for schools and poses an interesting question in a dull manner, like, unfortunately, every Coronet short subject I have seen.A gang of boys break into a warehouse, presumably for the sheer pleasure of it. The night watchman recognizes one of them and tells the police. A series of adults try to figure out how to deal with the situation when he refuses to squeal on his friends.Like may Coronet films, it tries to get its audience to do right by putting them in the place of others. Unfortunately, despite its good intentions, it does so in a very dull manner. So the message becomes "Be like people who are not very interesting, who can't figure out what to do because their moral decisions are based on such a complex standard that even they're confused". No thanks.

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