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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)
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Writer:
Crane Wilbur (writer)
Release Date:
5 May 1951 (USA)
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Tagline:
I had to sell out my own girl -- so would you!
Plot:
The FBI infiltrates one of their agents in the US Communist Party. This causes big problems in the normal life of the agent...
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Clandestine
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Political
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Nominated for Oscar.
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50's Cold War Memories.
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Cast
(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Frank Lovejoy | ... | Matt Cvetic |
 | Dorothy Hart | ... | Eve Merrick |
| Philip Carey | ... | Mason |
| James Millican | ... | Jim Blandon |
| Richard Webb | ... | Ken Crowley (FBI chief) |
| Konstantin Shayne | ... | Gerhardt Eisler |
| Paul Picerni | ... | Joe Cvetic |
| Edward Norris | ... | Harmon (as Eddie Norris) |
| Ron Hagerthy | ... | Dick Cvetic |
| Hugh Sanders | ... | Clyde Garson |
| Hope Kramer | ... | Ruth Cvetic |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| James Adamson | ... | Picket (uncredited) |
| Ernest Anderson | ... | Black Man (uncredited) |
| Sugarfoot Anderson | ... | Black Man (uncredited) |
| William Bailey | ... | Lawyer (uncredited) |
| Janet Barrett | ... | Secretary (uncredited) |
| Mildred Boyd | ... | Minor Role (uncredited) |
| John Bradford | ... | Elbert Dobbs (uncredited) |
| Paul Bradley | ... | Lawyer (uncredited) |
| Chuck Colean | ... | Brakeman (uncredited) |
| Russ Conway | ... | Frank Cvetic (uncredited) |
| John Crawford | ... | FBI Agent McGowan (uncredited) |
| James Dime | ... | Goon (uncredited) |
| Roy Engel | ... | Jackie's Father (uncredited) |
| Douglas Evans | ... | Chief Agent (uncredited) |
| William Forrest | ... | Senator Wood (uncredited) |
| Gordon Gebert | ... | Danny (uncredited) |
| Frank Gerstle | ... | Tom Cvetic (uncredited) |
| Bobby Gilbert | ... | Picket (uncredited) |
| Jimmy Gonzales | ... | Union Leader (uncredited) |
| Dick Gordon | ... | Lawyer (uncredited) |
| Karen Hale | ... | Secretary (uncredited) |
| Ed Hinton | ... | Jim Broderick, FBI Agent (uncredited) |
| Mary Alan Hokanson | ... | Bit Part (uncredited) |
| Charles Horvath | ... | Goon Leader (uncredited) |
| Colin Kenny | ... | Communist at meeting (uncredited) |
| Anne Kimbell | ... | Student (uncredited) |
| Paul Kruger | ... | Goon (uncredited) |
| Mike Lally | ... | Communist Board Member (uncredited) |
| Lenita Lane | ... | Miss Scott, School Principal (uncredited) |
| Lyle Latell | ... | Cahill, FBI Officer (uncredited) |
| Perc Launders | ... | Plant Worker (uncredited) |
| William F. Leicester | ... | FBI Agent Brown (uncredited) |
| Grace Lenard | ... | Wife (uncredited) |
| George Magrill | ... | Bit Part (uncredited) |
| Alma Mansfield | ... | Teacher (uncredited) |
| Frank Marlowe | ... | Worker (uncredited) |
| Paul McGuire | ... | FBI Agent McIntyre (uncredited) |
 | David McMahon | ... | Masowitch (uncredited) |
| Harold Miller | ... | Railroad Station Clerk (uncredited) |
| Bert Moorhouse | ... | Senator Gray (uncredited) |
| Ann Morrison | ... | Miss Nova (uncredited) |
| Jack Mower | ... | Railroad Conductor (uncredited) |
| Howard Negley | ... | Guy Brennan, Union Chairman (uncredited) |
| Erik Nielsen | ... | Jackie (uncredited) |
| Barry Norton | ... | Communist at Meeting (uncredited) |
| Jimmy O'Gatty | ... | Goon (uncredited) |
| Kasia Orzazewski | ... | Mrs. Cvetic (uncredited) |
| Gil Perkins | ... | Agitator in Fight (uncredited) |
| Charles Perry | ... | Communist Goon (uncredited) |
| Barry Regan | ... | Officer (uncredited) |
| Roy Roberts | ... | Father Novac (uncredited) |
| Michael Ross | ... | Foreman (uncredited) |
| Hans Schumm | ... | Rader - Communist Party Member (uncredited) |
| Robert 'Buddy' Shaw | ... | Lawyer (uncredited) |
| Charles Sherlock | ... | Bit Part (uncredited) |
| Joseph Darr Smith | ... | Goon (uncredited) |
| Paula Sowl | ... | Student (uncredited) |
| Bert Stevens | ... | Communist at Meeting (uncredited) |
| Jack Stoney | ... | Jack, Communist Goon (uncredited) |
| Brick Sullivan | ... | Worker in Fight (uncredited) |
| Charles Sullivan | ... | Crowd Agitator (uncredited) |
| Harry Tenbrook | ... | Spectator at Senate Hearing (uncredited) |
| Ken Terrell | ... | Communist Goon Agitator (uncredited) |
| Phil Tully | ... | Irish Mick (uncredited) |
| Sailor Vincent | ... | Striker in Picket Line (uncredited) |
| Harlan Warde | ... | FBI Agent (uncredited) |
| Blue Washington | ... | Black Man at Union Meeting (uncredited) |
| Tom Wilson | ... | Barfly / Union Meeting Extra (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| Gordon Douglas | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Crane Wilbur | writer | |
Produced by | |||
| Bryan Foy | .... | producer | |
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| Edwin B. DuPar | (as Edwin DuPar) | ||
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| Folmar Blangsted | |||
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| Leo K. Kuter | |||
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| Lyle B. Reifsnider | |||
Makeup Department | |||
| Gordon Bau | .... | makeup artist | |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | |||
| Al Alleborn | .... | assistant director | |
Sound Department | |||
| Leslie G. Hewitt | .... | sound | |
Music Department | |||
| Murray Cutter | .... | orchestrator (uncredited) | |
| Max Steiner | .... | composer: opening fanfare (uncredited) | |
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- Warner Bros. Pictures (1951) (USA) (theatrical)
- Warner Home Video (2009) (USA) (DVD)
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83 min
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Continuity: Eve's blouse has a large bow tied at her neck with long ends hanging down her front. These long ends alternate between hanging outside her coat and being tucked inside her coat between shots during her scene in Cvetic's apartment.
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Featured in "The Fifties" (1997)
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Matt Cvetic is a loyal communist in a Pittsburgh steel mill who works to recruit workers into the party, even though this isolates himself from his son, family, and neighbors. What makes this even more difficult is that Cvetic is actually an FBI agent posing as a Communist in order to obtain information about party activities. The party is trying to create a strike at the mill, whereby the pro-strike movement will lead the workers into a wave of propaganda. Cvetic also has to contend with beautiful Eve Merrick, a party member and teacher at his son's school who finds the fact that Cvetic is a double agent. When Eve learns the ugly truth about the party's real motives, the reds decide she must be liquidated and Cvetic must aid her without endangering himself. The film should have plenty of suspense and double crossing but there is very little in this film but (by today's standards) very cheesy propaganda and little action or thrills. Lovejoy is very good in the main role, but even he and the rest of the cast seem listless. Few surprises here and how did this film receive a Oscar nod for best documentary? Rating, 4.