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I Was a Communist for the FBI. I Was a Communist for the FBI is a 1951 American crime film noir produced by Bryan Foy, directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Frank Lovejoy. [3] The film is based on a series of stories written by Matt Cvetic that appeared in The Saturday Evening Post. [4] The stories were later adapted into a bestselling book ...
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
For a detailed discussion of Nelson in the larger social and political contexts of I Was a Communist for the F.B.I., see Leab 18–19, 21–23, 56–58, 68–69, and 82–87. 6. As Humphries observes elsewhere, Rankin was “notorious for blocking all attempts to introduce anti-lynching laws in Congress and his refusal to condemn the Ku Klux Klan” (“‘Documenting’” 114).
May 9, 2012 · The whole story of Matt Cvetic and I Was a Communist for the FBI shows the public fascination with FBI covert actions and the counter-communist initiatives of the U.S. government. It is also indicative of something I have discussed many times on this blog, that being the potency of the public paranoia that the FBI and its affiliates cultivated throughout the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.
I Was a Communist for the FBI should really be titled I Was a Soviet Spy for the FBI, but in the days of the Second Red Scare post-WWII, the pushed presumption was that a communist was automatically a Soviet comrade, ready to break merry hell to achieve unification with Mother Russia. It didn't help that facts were unimportant; for example, that the Greek communist rebellion in the late 1940s ...
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- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Gordon Douglas
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. I Was a Communist for the FBI. Theatrical release poster. Directed by.
Now they are blasting Communist agents with equal fervor and alarm in a hissing and horrendous spy film called "I Was a Communist for the F. B. I." Based on the magazine memoirs of Matt Cvetic, a ...
