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I Was a Communist for the F.B.I.: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, James Millican. In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage son think he's a real Red.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Gordon Douglas
- 1951-05-05
I Was a Communist for the FBI is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Lovejoy. The film was produced by Bryan Foy who was head of Warners B picture unit until 1942.
During the "Red Scare" of the 1950s, FBI agent and Slovenian-American Matt Cvetic (Frank Lovejoy) poses as a Communist to infiltrate the U.S. Communist Party. Unable to tell his friends and...
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- Gordon Douglas
- Drama
- Frank Lovejoy
Sep 13, 2020 · I Was a Communist for the FBI is a 1951 American FILM NOlR crime film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Lovejoy and Dorothy Hart. The film was based on a series of stories written by Matt Cvetic, who infiltrated a local Communist Party cell for nine years and reported back to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on their ...
- 83 min
Summoned to school where son Dick (Ron Hagerthy) has been fighting with kids who say he's a communist, under-cover agent and largely absent father Cvetic (Frank Lovejoy) sticks to his story, then meets intrigued teacher Eve (Dorothy Hart), in I Was A Communist For The F.B.I., 1951.
- Gordon Douglas, Al Alleborn, Oren Haglund
- Frank Lovejoy
Jul 5, 2021 · Reviewer: Gov Bud Hudnut. Subject: Believe it or not, this 1951 film was nominated for an Academy Award in the documentary field. As viewers will see, the production is in fact a work of fiction with a cast of actors and a standard Hollywood approach to story-telling.
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I Was a Communist for the FBI. A federal agent on a dangerous assignment -- he must go underground to f lush out a nefarious spy ring. Leonard Maltin praises this suspenseful political tales as "low key, and effective." Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
