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Director:

Robert Stevenson

Writers:

Robert Hardy Andrews (writer)
George W. George (story)
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Release Date:

21 December 1951 (Japan) more

Genre:

Film-Noir more

Tagline:

High Voltage Melodrama! more

Plot:

Successful, newly married Brad Collins once belonged to the Communist Party of the USA, and now the Party will stop at nothing to use him. full summary | add synopsis

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Communist Party=Mob more (14 total)


Cast

  (Credited cast)
Laraine Day ... Nan Lowry Collins

Robert Ryan ... Brad Collins aka Frank Johnson
John Agar ... Don Lowry
Thomas Gomez ... Vanning
Janis Carter ... Christine Norman
Richard Rober ... Jim Travers
William Talman ... Bailey, younger henchman
Paul E. Burns ... J.T. Arnold, older henchman
Paul Guilfoyle ... Ralston, drowning victim
G. Pat Collins ... Charlie Dover, corrupt organizer
Fred Graham ... Grip Wilson
Harry Cheshire ... J. Francis Cornwall
Jack Stoney ... Garth
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Bess Flowers ... Secretary (scenes deleted)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:

I Married a Communist (USA) (pre-release title)
The Woman on Pier 13 (UK)
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Runtime:

73 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Sweden:(Banned)


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Trivia:

According to Daniel Mainwaring, author of the beloved noir "Out of the Past," RKO head Howard Hughes used the film "I Married a Communist" to get rid of a lot of writers, directors and actors. If you refused to work in this project, you got fired from the studio. more


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13 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
Communist Party=Mob, 7 September 2001
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Author: jcappy from ny-vt

One understands why Nicholas Ray turned this picture down. Yet, the final product could have been worse: the Communist Party could have been portrayed as something less attractive than a waterfront mob. Remember that audiences are and were used to identifying with glamorous gangland and this mob is not lacking in muscle, molls, and even a certain coolness (they have social parties and are intellectual). And the finale scene nearly matches some of best film noirs. To boot, the great Robert Ryan, whose character can no more divorce himself from the Party as from the Mob, somehow lends, by his association alone, even more draw to these American Reds. Apart from all this, the movie's worth a look if only for Ryan and Lorraine Day (some faces).

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