If you think that shrill anti-immigrant rhetoric is a recent part of American politics, this is the film to change your mind. Gassman plays a Hungarian displaced person attempting to enter the United States without documentation. Despite being a Shoa survivor and bearing the marks of "Enhanced Interrogation" for his Resistance activities, the Eisenhower administration not only refuses him a review of his case, but summarily decides to send him back to the Iron Curtain on the next boat. He has one chance--a G.I. he hid from the Nazis at great peril. His name is Tom and he plays the clarinet somewhere near Times Square. So he jumps ship to do the government's work for himself. Now he's a fugitive in a nightmarish journey through Manhattan in which the skills he learned in dealing with the Totalitarian regimes will be applied to Eisenhower's goons. This all leads to a fantastic climax atop the United Nations building, which is the meaning of the film's title.
Review of The Glass Wall
