"the term denoted American adventurers who incited revolution in several Latin American states"
Hoo boy is that neutralized...the filibusters were US white racist authoritarian wannabe dictators who rampaged thru central America to set up their own dominions. Failed miserably when confronted with not-so-inferior peoples defending their own nations. But boy howdy did United Fruit learn the lesson and try to improve on the filibusters' results. Thence Smedley Butler, etc.
I'll have to watch the film. I wonder if the popularity of French film serial "Les Vampires" (1915-1916), whose main characters were Irma Vep and her band of bat costumed jewel thieves, played into creation of Filibus? It's also interesting that both of these came out right when the women's suffrage movement was still in mind even as WW1 was starting to ramp up.
"the term denoted American adventurers who incited revolution in several Latin American states"
Hoo boy is that neutralized...the filibusters were US white racist authoritarian wannabe dictators who rampaged thru central America to set up their own dominions. Failed miserably when confronted with not-so-inferior peoples defending their own nations. But boy howdy did United Fruit learn the lesson and try to improve on the filibusters' results. Thence Smedley Butler, etc.
I'll have to watch the film. I wonder if the popularity of French film serial "Les Vampires" (1915-1916), whose main characters were Irma Vep and her band of bat costumed jewel thieves, played into creation of Filibus? It's also interesting that both of these came out right when the women's suffrage movement was still in mind even as WW1 was starting to ramp up.
Great stuff. Those graphics alone draw you in. I'd say this one's long overdue for a reboot!
A+