I think JFC below made my point better than I did — that the first one emphasized that you shouldn't trust that people's motives are what they say they are.

The remake missed the entire point of the original. Angela Lansbury went around calling everyone who disagreed with her a communist, while secretly she was no patriot but a commie herself.

Am I the only monster who was delighted that Frank's immediate gut reaction was to whip a little girl in the face?