I watched the film on this DVD.
Here is a promotional poster for the 1953 film.
The film THE GLASS WALL is about a Hungarian-Jew, a Holocaust survivor who makes it to New York but is about to be sent back to Europe by Immigration. He pleas his case that he had befriended an American, a musician who plays somewhere in Times Square. His only hope is that he find this musician, who by now has a serious girlfriend who is helping him find a better job so that they can afford to mar, so that the man can testify for him. So Vincent, this man, runs for his life and is homeless on the streets of New York but finds himself befriended by a Blonde who steals a coat to pawn so she won't get evicted, as well as a Hungarian immigrant and her daughter, who help him.
Enter GOULASH on film. Goulash is a healing meal. And as mama and daughter cook it and serve it up, no one asks if it's Kosher.
This film is one of those that got the Go at a studio where there was concern for the plight of WWII Jewish immigrants who sometimes found themselves without a country, their families dead, their home towns decimated, who traveled to the United States, as well as how their country men and women in the United States had empathy and tried to help them within their means. It presents Hungarian ethnic immigrants to the American Viewer sympathetically.
In the end the musician is found and the Holocaust survivor finds himself on the Right side of immigration and accepted by his new country.
Worth a watch, especially if you like Film Noir.
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