The Red Menace (1949)
So shocking it was filmed behind locked studio doors!
A couple try to leave the Communist party after a murder by the group they were once loyal to.
- Date of release
- 1949-08-01
- TMDB
- 4.5 / 10 (15)
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Crime
- Director
- R.G. Springsteen
Casting
- Robert Rockwell — Bill Jones
- Hanna Axmann-Rezzori — Nina Petrovka (as Hanne Axman)
- Betty Lou Gerson — Greta Bloch, alias Yvonne Kraus
- Shepard Menken — Henry Solomon
- Lester Luther — Earl Partridge
- William Lally — Jack Tyler (as William J. Lally)
- Lloyd G. Davies — Inspector O'Toole
- Norman Budd — Reachi
- Leo Cleary — Father O'Leary
- Kay Riehl — Mrs. O'Flaherty
- William Martell — Immigration Insp. Riggs
- James Harrington — Martin Vejac
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Los Angeles
The Red Menace is a 1949 anti-communist film noir drama film directed by R. G. Springsteen starring Robert Rockwell and Hannelore Axman.
Production
The film was originally planned to be made by Irving Allen and James S. Burkett as an independent film. Republic Pictures chose unknowns for the cast and many made their film debuts. Republic Pictures' president Herbert Yates was named as executive producer but no producer was named.
As well as playing Inspector O'Toole, Lloyd G. Davies was also the film's narrator.
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