Was rather amazed that you, apparently close to my 70-years of age, found the original 1951 The Day The Earth Stood Still film was "commie propaganda, pure and simple" in any way, form or fashion.
So, went to you FR Homepage and read this: "As a shop steward, business agent and labor organizer I bought into all the mythologies of the left, and then one evening in the early 1980's I had an epiphany when a visiting professor from East Germany told me and a number of friends at a party for the SEIU that all the guys in the Solidarity Labor Union should be marched in front of firing squads and shot. And from the that night on it became more and more clear to me that lefties make a lot of noise, but they really don't care about working people at all."
I cannot recall any day in my life when I was not a Conservative Republican, especially after I started reading Robert A. Heinlein with his 1957 novel Citizen of the Galaxy when I was 10-years of age.
Now, answer me this, if you say you knew the true truth of Pravda from within and then without, how can you ever say that the plot of The Day The Earth Stood Still was Communist propaganda?
I grew up in the 1950s and as I remember from those days, the film was very accurate in portraying what the general feeling was about the Soviet Union at the time and a realistic look at just how the politicians and general public of that day and age would most likely react to Klaatu and friend landing a flying saucer in DC--
Thusly, your call of "commie propaganda," in my humble opinion, is pure and simply wrong. Yet I would like to hear just exactly how you came to that belief?