The Red Menace (film)
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| Directed by | R. G. Springsteen |
| Screenplay by | Albert DeMond Gerald Geraghty |
| Story by | Albert DeMond |
| Produced by | Herbert Yates |
| Starring | Robert Rockwell Hannelore Axman |
| Narrated by | Lloyd G. Davies |
| Cinematography | John MacBurnie |
| Edited by | Harry Keller |
| Music by | Nathan Scortt |
Production company | Republic Pictures |
| Distributed by | Republic Pictures |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Red Menace (reissue title Underground Spy) is a 1949 anti-communist film noir drama film directed by R. G. Springsteen starring Robert Rockwell and Hannelore Axman.
Plot[]
An ex-GI named Bill Jones (Robert Rockwell) becomes involved with the Communist Party USA. While in training, Jones falls in love with one of his instructors. At first true followers of communism, they realize their mistake when they witness party leaders murder a member who questions the party's principles. When they try to leave the party, the two are marked for murder and hunted by the party's assassins.[1]
Cast[]
- Robert Rockwell as Bill Jones
- Hannelore Axman as Nina Petrovka (as Hanne Axman)
- Betty Lou Gerson as Yvonne Kraus
- Barbra Fuller as Mollie O'Flaherty
- Shepard Menken as Henry Solomon
- Lester Luther as Earl Partridge
- William Lally as Jack Tyler (as William J. Lally
- Lloyd G. Davies as Inspector O'Toole
- Norman Budd as Reachi
- Leo Cleary as Father O'Leary
- Kay Riehl as Mrs. O'Flaherty
- William Martell as Immigration Insp. Riggs
- James Harrington as Martin Vejac
- Duke Williams as Sam Wright
- Napoleon Simpson as Tom Wright
- Robert H. Purcell as Sheriff of Talbot (as Roberto Purcell)
- Royal Raymond as Benson
- Gregg Martell as Schuitz
- Jimmy Hawkins as Jimmy (as Jimmie Hawkins)
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- 1949 films
- English-language films
- 1949 drama films
- American anti-communist propaganda films
- American drama films
- American films
- Cold War films
- Films critical of communism
- Films directed by R. G. Springsteen
- Films scored by Nathan Scott
- Republic Pictures films
- Films shot in Los Angeles
- American black-and-white films
- 1940s drama film stubs