A lot of the sci-fi films of the 50s had a anti-communist undertone. Consider “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”. One the aliens infiltrate society they can literally be anyone. Your neighbor, your best friend, your own wife might be working to destroy the American way of life. This can (and has been) viewed as an allegory to the commies among us, and how they can seem normal and friendly but can be a deadly enemy, even worse than one in uniform manning a tank over there somewhere. Of course now Hollywood would depict them as elevating mankind somehow. Because ... well don’t get me started on Hollywood’s politics.
Excellent article.
And ping to PA for this nice bit of history, since many of those Soviet agents came from the ranks of the Progressives.
The pressure should have never been lifted fromoff the communist scum. That they had enough influence to cast themselves as victims rather than people who needed rooting out only shows how correct the anticommunist were.
But the Useful Idiot Left was too busy standing up for the commies and trying to deny the horrors they inflicted. Even Hemmingway had worked for the NKVD. Now the heirs to their ideological trash are doing their worst to erase our past and bring us to ruin as a nation ... all in the name of social justice.
And? She's upset that it got out? Or what?
Big Jim McLain (1952)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044418/
Too bad The Duke didn’t round up the Hawaiian Communists behind t4eh Obama fraud.
Restraint considering McCarthy was right
Pickup On South Street is an under-rated classic. With an unforgettable performance by Thelma Ritter.
Not from the 1950s, but “The Lives of Others” was apparently one of William F Buckley’s favorite films. Set in East Berlin under communist rule, it shows how humanity enslaved to the state is in misery.
Yet when another side is shown, a heart can change.
Well worth your time.
Go to youtube and search for “Walk East on Beacon,” 1952.
It’s grade B noir goodness!