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Red Nightmare (1962)
YouTube ^ | Uploaded on Oct 3, 2011 | Department of Defense / Warner Brothers

Posted on 01/28/2015 3:12:16 PM PST by WhiskeyX

Jack Webb (Dragnet) plays a Rod Serling-like role as he introduces us to Jerry Donovan -- an average guy who shrugs off his inconvenient, civic responsibilities. Jerry "wakes up" in a communist-controlled town, where he's the only American left. This film was produced for the Defense Department by studio mogul Jack L Warner and stars many Warner Brothers stock actors -- including Jack Kelly (Maverick), Robert Conrad (Wild Wild West) and Andrew Duggan. At the time, Jack L. Warner was very staunch anti-Communist, even though he released a pro-Communist feature film, Mission to Moscow, in 1943.

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1 posted on 01/28/2015 3:12:16 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

Excellent.
I loved Jack Webb from age 4!


2 posted on 01/28/2015 3:15:16 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: WhiskeyX

They don’t come much more anti progressive than “The Obsolete Man”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1422411861&v=U0aksAd0ae4&x-yt-cl=84924572


3 posted on 01/28/2015 3:20:47 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: WhiskeyX

The KGB did construct such a town for use in training agents. The CIA probably did the same. I remember reading the memoirs of a Soviet agent defector who had to learn, for example, to hold his fork in his right hand and switch to his left when using his knife to cut his food. Otherwise he might stand out as a little bit “different”.


4 posted on 01/28/2015 3:23:36 PM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: onyx
I loved Jack Webb from age 4!

I didn't know Jack Webb was a child-actor... ;)

5 posted on 01/28/2015 3:36:43 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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To: katana

During WWII the German Gestapo searched for American spies by watching diners use the cutlery in that American style, whereas the European used the right hand to hold the knife and the left hand to hold the fork and then eat from the fork while in the left hand.


6 posted on 01/28/2015 3:56:26 PM PST by WhiskeyX
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To: WhiskeyX

When Mission to Moscow was released it wasn’t widely known what a propaganda piece it really was.


7 posted on 01/28/2015 4:07:30 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: WhiskeyX

A democrat dreamworld.


8 posted on 01/28/2015 4:11:57 PM PST by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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To: wally_bert

Exactly what it is. Get rid of those filthy churches and worship the all powerful state.


9 posted on 01/28/2015 4:16:03 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: katana

Red Nightmare (1962), katana wrote:
The KGB did construct such a town for use in training agents. The CIA probably did the same. I remember reading the memoirs of a Soviet agent defector who had to learn, for example, to hold his fork in his right hand and switch to his left when using his knife to cut his food. Otherwise he might stand out as a little bit “different”.

In film that dinning mannerism depiction was shown in “The Great Escape”. With the late James Gardner playing the American POW escaspee and “Telly Savalas playing the role of a Gestapo agent. Savalas towering over Gardner while seated at a table in a restauant as he was shoveling food in his mouth with his right hand looks up to see Savalas smiling, shaking a no no with his finger.


10 posted on 01/28/2015 4:18:44 PM PST by mosesdapoet (Some of my best rebuttals are in FR's along with meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: WhiskeyX
"You might can call this a College town... Communist style".

Fixed it.

11 posted on 01/28/2015 4:30:56 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: WhiskeyX

There is a series, I think on FX, called “The Americans”, in which a “sleeper” cell was planted in America, but the son, born and raised in the United States, had no idea his parents and older sister were actually Russian agents. It so happened, the son was a particularly adept intelligence operative, for the US, and the whole plot hinges around that.

It would have been much more believable in the 1960’s, but the Russians are still Russians, and the concept cannot be entirely dismissed.


12 posted on 01/28/2015 4:39:49 PM PST by alloysteel (Je suis Charlie)
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To: WhiskeyX

Oh but we’ve come a long way.


13 posted on 01/28/2015 4:42:58 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: colorado tanker
I would venture to say that's probably true of "Failsafe" which I'm sorry I mostly watched recently.

Ugly, despicable film with halfway decent acting by what's-his-name.

14 posted on 01/28/2015 4:44:01 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: WhiskeyX

The International Socialists were much smarter than the National Socialists. Instead of “invading” the U.S., the Commies took over the political party that was always soft on Commies. In 1994, the Commies took over the AFL-CIO and the AFL-CIO took over the Democrat party.


15 posted on 01/28/2015 4:47:51 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: katana

I’m left-handed. I never switched back and forth, and my mother never called attention to it. I didn’t even notice that everyone was doing that until I was at a picnic at the age of eight. Some Dutch people were there, and they were amused at all the Americans switching back and forth.


16 posted on 01/28/2015 4:51:15 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: colorado tanker

That’s probably why the credits say, in large print, “Produced at WARNER BROS STUDIOS Under the Personal Supervision of JACK L. WARNER”.

Guy was probably concerned about his earlier pro-Stalin propaganda.


17 posted on 01/28/2015 5:23:36 PM PST by Skepolitic
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To: WhiskeyX
During WWII the German Gestapo searched for American spies by watching diners . . .

I read where the Nazis had a crack counter agent who consistently smoked out American spies. After the war he was interrogated about his methods.

It came out that he used the same environment, but when the diner asked for pie, he was served it with the wide end first, which is how the Euros ate it. Sure enough, the spy would pivot the plate and start eating from the pointy end, only to look up and see the Gestapo around his table.

18 posted on 01/28/2015 5:38:20 PM PST by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
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To: 9thLife

Is that the old cold war movie from the 60’s? That one was a real stinker. Lefty pro-disarmament propaganda.


19 posted on 01/28/2015 5:46:18 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: WhiskeyX

Updated for today: Your Moslum Nightmare


20 posted on 01/28/2015 5:46:41 PM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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