It's a portrait of the '70s folk-rock star, and of the song of his — with lyrics by his wife — that still casts a spell. Yet the film’s title throws down a bit of a gauntlet. Was Harry Chapin’s “Cat’s ...

Patriotism was ennobling, self-sacrifice was reflexive; heroism was rewarded, and everybody was proudly in this fight together. Such was the tenor of the movie releases of the early 1940s. A bit ...