Nine years before "Goodbye Uncle Tom", Jacopetti and Prosperi had made the original "shockumentary", "Mondo Cane". Their desire to shock came through in that film, along with a spirit to explore the bizarre, to show the unexpected, and to be as objective as possible. But this film seems to have a different approach, and a sick sensibility. They vicariously visit mid-19th-century America, but although they claim that the film is based in historically accurate facts, you can see (or guess) where they twist and cheapen them (showing black men dying in slow-motion, locking them up in cages while a mad scientist explains why they are an inferior race). The film is also crude and muddy, and things were made even worse by the extremely poor-quality print I saw (it was scratchy and parts of certain scenes seemed to be missing). For now, this gets a *1/2 rating. A better print may improve this....but not by much.
Review of Goodbye Uncle Tom
