The Woman on Pier 13 (I Married a Communist) (1950)
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36% of users liked it
(47 ratings)
There's propaganda aplenty in RKO's I Married a Communist, the first of producer Howard R. Hughes's many anti-Red broadsides. Robert Ryan plays shipping executive Brad Collins, whose youthful flirtations with certain left-wing causes have made him ripe for plucking by Commie cell leader… More There's propaganda aplenty in RKO's I Married a Communist, the first of producer Howard R. Hughes's many anti-Red broadsides. Robert Ryan plays shipping executive Brad Collins, whose youthful flirtations with certain left-wing causes have made him ripe for plucking by Commie cell leader Vanning (Thomas Gomez). Threatening to reveal Collins' "pinko" past, Vanning orders the executive to deliberately sabotage the shipping industry in the Frisco Bay area. Other characters essential to the plotline are Collins' wife Nan (Laraine Day), who knows nothing of her husband's politics, and his idealistic brother-in-law Don (John Agar) who spouts Marxist dogma at the drop of a hat. Apparently at a loss as to how to depict communist villainy, the screenwriters hark back on the gangster films of the 1930s, notably in the scene where a hapless stoolie (the inevitable Paul Guilfoyle) is taken for a ride. When the title I Married a Communist proved an audience turn-off during previews, the film was rechristened The Woman on Pier 13. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Robert Stevenson
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 8, 1949 Wide
- Studio
- Warner Home Video
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
If you can somehow get by the polemics and the cheesy script and view this melodrama as typical Hollywood, the film is quite entertaining.
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Cast
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Laraine Day
as Nan Collins
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Robert Ryan
as Brad Collins
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John Agar
as Don Lowry
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Thomas Gomez
as Vanning
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Janis Carter
as Christine
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Richard Rober
as Jim Travis
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William Talman
as Bailey
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Paul E. Burns
as Arnold
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Paul Guilfoyle
as Ralston
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G. Pat Collins
as Charles Dover
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Fred Graham
as Grip Wilson
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Harry V. Cheshire
as Mr. Cornwall
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Jack Stoney
as Garth
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Iris Adrian
as Waitress
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Don Brodie
as Drunk
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Barry Brooks
as Burke
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Charles Cane
as Hagen
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Johnny Duncan
as Bellhop
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Bess Flowers
as Secretary
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William Haade
as Cahill
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Louis Lane
as Girl
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George Magrill
as Tough
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Lester Matthews
as Dr. Dixon
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Al Murphy
as Jeb
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Jim Nolan
as Cop
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Dick Ryan
as Waiter at Cocktail Bar
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Erskine Sanford
as Clerk
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Allan Ray
as Man
