The Red Menace (1949)
The Red Menace (1949)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7000 kbps | 4.7Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:21:00 | USA | Drama
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC | 4:3 | 720x480 | 7000 kbps | 4.7Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps
01:21:00 | USA | Drama
A disillusioned, bitter ex-GI gets involved with the Communist party, and winds up falling in love with one of his "instructors." At first true believers, they realize their mistake when they witness Party leaders murder a member who questions the party's principles. They try to leave the party, but are marked for murder and hunted by the party's assassins.
Director: R.G. Springsteen
Cast: Robert Rockwell, Hannelore Axman, Betty Lou Gerson, Barbra Fuller, Shepard Menken, Lester Luther, William Lally, Lloyd G. Davies, Norman Budd, Leo Cleary, Kay Riehl, William Martell, James Harrington, Duke Williams, Napoleon Simpson, Robert H. Purcell, Royal Raymond, Gregg Martell, Jimmy Hawkins, Gail Bonney, Marshall Bradford, Mary DeGolyer, Joe Duval, Bill Free, Jim Hayward, William Hitch, William Hudson, Marilyn Criss Kraft, Jean Leighton, Ralph Loretz
The Red Menace (1949)
The Red Menace (1949)
While driving through Arizona, Bill Jones and Nina Petrovka speak fearfully of the people they left behind in California. They then think back to their escape: After returning from the war, GI Bill Jones and his fiancée try to buy a house, but are cheated out of their savings by an unlicensed real estate broker. Bill complains to officials at the Veteran's Service Center, but when they ignore him, he leaves. A man named Jack Tyler, who has overheard Bill's complaint, follows him and offers to buy him a drink. At a local bar, Bill meets Jack's friends, Yvonne Kraus, Irish-American Mollie O'Flaherty, and a Jewish-American poet named Henry Solomon, and receives words of sympathy when he explains that his fiancée left him after they were cheated. Later, Jack visits his friend, black writer Sam Wright, at a newspaper office headed by Communist party leader Earl Partridge, where a reporter has been fired for speaking about the Communist party. Knowing that the reporter will be deported, and thus become a martyr, the party informs the Immigration and Naturalization Service about his Communist activities. Later, while speaking to Bill, Mollie praises the party for its efforts to help Jews and Negroes. The next day, Jack attends a violent protest meeting for disgruntled GIs at the corrupt Hillside Realty Co., accompanied by lovely Russian party leader Nina Petrovka. When party members incite a riot, Bill and Nina flee to an amusement park across the street. While riding the Ferris wheel, Nina explains that she teaches Marxism at the party's headquarters. Some time later, after an Italian-American student named Reachi questions Yvonne's statements, she calls him a "Mussolini-spawned dago," and he is beaten up and humiliated. When party members kill him, Nina begins to question her role in the party. She decides to phone Earl to say that she is ill and will be unable to attend that evening's meeting. Later, when Yvonne sees Bill and Nina leave together, she reports to Partridge. At the same time, parish priest Father O'Leary, who is aware of Mollie's Communist involvement, visits the young woman to praise the United States, the world's "melting pot." At a party meeting, Henry reads a poem he has written suggesting that rather than being completely original in his theories, Marx actually built upon the ideas of other great thinkers. The party leaders are distressed by Henry's statements, and when he refuses to retract them, they force him out of the party. Henry criticizes party officials, who claim to fight racial discrimination, while repeatedly reminding other members of their ethnicity. Even after he has left the party, Henry is repeatedly fired from low paying jobs because the party keeps telling his employers about his Communist activities. Some time later, at the newspaper office, Henry gives Sam a letter to deliver to Mollie in the event of his death. Later, when he tries to stop Partridge from disciplining Mollie for speaking with him, Henry jumps to his death from his high-rise office window. After Sam learns about this, he delivers the note, which begs Mollie to return to church and her mother, and she does. Later, Bill, who has already told Nina that he disagrees with party methods, tells her that they are issuing a card to him the following day, and they decide to escape together. Meanwhile, officers from the Immigration and Naturalization Service interrogate Yvonne until she admits that she is actually a dissident named Greta Bloch, who took Yvonne's place after she was murdered by party officials. Yvonne then becomes hysterical and is taken away. Later, Sam receives a visit from his father, who tells him that their church deacon says that more slaves exist in Communist countries than anyplace else and urges him to come home. Before leaving with his father, Sam writes a brief epitaph praising Henry as a hero. When an official reads his words later, he curses the "African ingrate." Believing that the party is trying to capture them, Bill and Nina flee by car, and after many hours on the road, decide to stop at a police station in Texas. They explain their predicament to the sheriff, who calmly reminds them that they live in a free country and have no reason to run. On their way out, Bill and Nina meet a little boy, who tells them that townsfolk have nicknamed the kindly sheriff "Uncle Sam."
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The Red Menace (1949)
The Red Menace (1949)
