Posted on 03/26/2022 11:33:11 AM PDT by V K Lee
Red Nightmare is the best known title of Armed Forces Information Film (AFIF) 120, Freedom and You.[1] It was meant to educate the U.S. armed forces about the nature of Communism. The film was later released to American television and as an educational film to American schools under the Red Nightmare title. The film is a Cold War-era drama short subject starring Jack Kelly and Jeanne Cooper. Red Nightmare was directed by George Waggner (The Wolf Man) and narrated by Jack Webb. Though made for the Department of Defense, it was shown on American television on Jack Webb's GE True in 1962.
A man takes his American freedoms for granted, until he wakes up one morning to find out that the United States Government has been replaced with a Communist system. The basis for this short film, narrated by Jack Webb, is the alleged Soviet re-creation of US communities for the purpose of training infiltrators, spies, and moles.
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Red Dawn was better.
Filmed at Warner Brother Studios in Burbank. Good movie.
Will be an interesting comparison with the US today, too.
“You will soon own nothing…and you will love it!” - Klaus Schwab, WEF
Did you watch it? What did it lack?
Thanks.
Thanks for posting. It’s interesting to watch a young Jeanne Cooper, who portrayed the legendary Young and The Restless character Katherine Chancellor.
To be candid, I don’t remember it. It was narrated by Jack Webb. I saw it at the same time as another movie that had a nuke bomb go off in Los Angeles, followed a family heading for the hills, and I can’t remember THAT movie either. Both had clueless teenagers. The anti-commie message was clear.
People who weren’t raised in the cold war consider these kinds of movies to be comedies like watching “Reefer Madness”.
Seems right. That was real, scary shiite back in the day.
That was “Panic in Year Zero” with Ray Milland and and a very young Frankie Avalon.
Ray Milland at his best.
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The actress seems like she may be the one who played “Mrs. Chancellor” in the soap YTL.
Sorry to say YTL simply goes over my head.
The only soap I cared to watch was General Hospital
on occasion. Work during the day left little time to
stay abreast of what’s happening in Port Charles or any
other fictional city.
For those who were born post these red days, being an
elementary school student during this time was scary.
The bomb drills alone were enough to set one’s mind there
are evil persons who would destroy this nation without second thought. Remember breaking down in tears after watching a similar movie. The image embedded in mind that
it could happen during my lifetime. A difficult thing to
“unsee” and forget.
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