The Red Menace (film)
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The Red Menace is a 1949 anti-communist and anti-Soviet propaganda film released by Republic Pictures
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An ex-GI named Bill Jones (Robert Rockwell
), who becomes involved with the Communist Party
. 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.
Republic Pictures
Republic Pictures was an independent film production-distribution corporation with studio facilities, operating from 1934 through 1959, and was best known for specializing in westerns, movie serials and B films emphasizing mystery and action....
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An ex-GI named Bill Jones (Robert Rockwell
Robert Rockwell
Robert Rockwell was an American actor best known for playing the handsome, but awkward biology teacher Philip Boynton in the radio and television situation comedy Our Miss Brooks opposite Eve Arden....
), who becomes involved with the Communist Party
Communist Party USA
The Communist Party USA is a Marxist political party in the United States, established in 1919. It has a long, complex history that is closely related to the histories of similar communist parties worldwide and the U.S. labor movement....
. While in training, Jones falls in love with one of his instructors. At first true followers of Communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
, 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.