I Was a Communist for the F.B.I (1951)
1951 · Feature film · 79 min · dir. Gordon Douglas
I had to sell out my own girl -- so would you!
- Drama
- Thriller
Synopsis
The FBI infiltrates one of their agents, Matt Cvetic, into the US Communist Party. This causes big problems in the normal life of the agent. Nobody knows, including his family, that he is in fact working to expose a large-scale plan to have Communists in key positions in industry and unions.
Synopsis from OMDb
Details
- Director
- Gordon Douglas
- Writer
- Crane Wilbur
- Composer
- Max Steiner
- Cinematography
- Edwin B. DuPar
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 1951-05-02
- Running time
- 79 minutes
Cast & crew
Gordon Douglas Director
Frank Lovejoy
Dorothy Hart
Philip Carey
James Millican
Richard Webb
Konstantin Shayne
Paul Picerni
Roy Roberts
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Frank Lovejoy 5 stars · berger meister · 2024-02-13
I give Lovejoy 5 stars especially the final scene when he reconciles with his son...it brought me to tears...Dorothy Hart is described in IMDB as a luminescent beauty, and I must concur. Too bad she retired early, as I feel that she was a gorgeous woman, who captured the screen's attention at all times.
A curio resurfaces · Gov Bud Hudnut · 2021-07-05
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. True, the claim was made that the picture is based on actual events- an old ploy in the entertainment business. But the important feature to keep in mind is that every studio put out at least one of these anti-communist turkeys at the time in order to mollify HUAC and the newspapers, as well as to find out who among their contracted employees might reveal…
