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The 1957 British film The Man in the Road, starring Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit, is a typical 1950s ‘red menace’ Cold War espionage thriller. Director Lance Comfort’s 1957 British black and white thriller […]
‘MASTERS OF FEAR! MASTERS OF INTRIGUE! MERCHANTS OF MURDER!’ Director Jacques Tourneur’s anti-Communist 1958 black and white film noir crime thriller The Fearmakers stars Dana Andrews as brainwashed Korean War veteran Alan Eaton, who comes […]
Rhonda Fleming had signed a three-picture deal with Paramount Pictures in 1950 and, for the third of these, Pine-Thomas Productions teamed her with Ronald Reagan again in Hong Kong (1952). Dishonest adventurer Jeff Williams (Reagan) […]
Producer-director Leo McCarey’s 1952 drama My Son John is one of the most glaring examples of 50s Hollywood’s rabid anti-communist attitudes with John Jefferson (Robert Walker) ostracised by his all-American family when he returns home […]
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