Point Of Order

POINT OF ORDER is a 95-minute distillation of the high points of the 36-day Army-McCarthy hearings conducted by the US Senate in 1954. Although the movie is totally unremarkable as a piece of filmmaking, its contents render it compelling and thoroughly entertaining.

The back-story: By 1954, Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had risen to a position of immense power by enflaming and feeding off of the anti-Communist hatred and hysteria that was gripping millions of Americans. An opportunistic scoundrel, McCarthy had built his reputation largely on a series of unsubstantiated statements accusing America's federal government and institutions of higher ...