Alan Napier, Hal Baylor, Hans Conried

U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers in Hawaii (ignoring somewhat, as do their superiors in t...( read more  read more... )he Congress, that membership in the Communist Party was, at the time, legal in the U.S.)

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Directed by: Edward Ludwig

Release Date: December 31, 1952

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DVD Release Date: May 22, 2007

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  • March 11, 2009
    Outstanding movie John Wayne is my family favorite actor
  • December 30, 2008
    Nothing but a propaganda film promoting the agenda of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the time of McCarthyism. Now, I'm about as pro-America and anti-communist as a person can get, but even I found this film to be laughable, cheesy, and extremely heavy-handed with i...( read more)ts political message, portraying communism as something like satanism (communism is bad, but it's not quite THAT bad), and casting the HUAC (often bad for America in its own way) in a downright heroic light.

    Of course, having said all that, it's not fair to condemn this film without taking fully into account the time in which it was made. At the time of this movie's release, the Korean War was raging, America had lost its nuclear supremacy, Russia and China were being assholes, and all kinds of organizations within America itself (the ACLU, for instance) were hoping to see the White House painted red someday soon. All that doesn't change the fact that "Big Jim McLain" is a terrible movie, but it does help to put it into perspective somewhat.
  • November 26, 2008
    U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers in Hawaii (ignoring somewhat, as do their superiors in t...( read more read more... )he Congress, that membership in the Communist Party...( read more) was, at the time, legal in the U.S.)
  • October 5, 2008
    Gunsomke beging my favorite tv show my dad let me watch it and I ended up being not the best movie. And is not one John Waynes clasics.

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