The Red Menace

1949
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1h 21m

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An ex-GI becomes involved with the American Communist party, and falls in love with his instructor. The pair quickly realise their mistake, when they see how party leaders handle a member wh... Read allAn ex-GI becomes involved with the American Communist party, and falls in love with his instructor. The pair quickly realise their mistake, when they see how party leaders handle a member who questioned the party's principles. When they try to leave, they're marked for assassinat... Read allAn ex-GI becomes involved with the American Communist party, and falls in love with his instructor. The pair quickly realise their mistake, when they see how party leaders handle a member who questioned the party's principles. When they try to leave, they're marked for assassination and hunted by the party killers.

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Trivia
Debut of actresses Barbra Fuller, Betty Lou Gerson, Kay Riehl and Mary DeGolyer.

Quotes
[first lines]
Nina Petrovka: No... Don't let them... I'm afraid.
Bill Jones: Nina, stop it. It's me, Bill! They can't get us now.
Nina Petrovka: They're gonna kill us!
Bill Jones: Nina... Get a hold of yourself. Snap out of it.
Nina Petrovka: That same dream. Those frightening, sadistic faiths chasing me. Turning guns at me.
Bill Jones: It's nothing to worry about. They can't get us out here.
Nina Petrovka: You don't really believe that. You know we can't get away.
Bill Jones: They haven't caught us yet, have they?
Nina Petrovka: No, but... they are real! Oh please Bill, let me get myself up. It isn't you they're after, want me, why don't you...
Bill Jones: This is why.
[kisses her on the cheek]
Nina Petrovka: Well, we'll have to stop for the next gas station.
Bill Jones: Bill... I hate to stop for anything.
Nina Petrovka: Well, we can't run without gas.

Connections
Featured in Hollywood on Trial (1976)

Soundtracks
My Country, 'Tis of Thee
Lyrics by Samuel Francis Smith (1831)
Sung by a male chorus at the end, over shots of the Statue of Liberty

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10/10

The "Reefer Madness" of Cold War films

And throw in a touch of "Plan 9 From Outer Space" and you've got the idea. The commies are using sex and booze to lure all-American boys to do ... just what isn't exactly clear, but the ultimate goal is to promote atheism and destroy freedom. Meanwhile, all they seem to be doing is killing their own members when not turning them in to the INS. An added treat for 50's TV fans is that the dimwitted hero is played by Robert Rockwell, who later portrayed Mr. Boynton, the suspiciously uninterested biology teacher eternally pursued by Eve Arden in "Our Miss Brooks"