Tail Gunner Joe

Feb 6, 1977

2h 25m

★ 6.0

Overview

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

Genres

TV Movie

Drama

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Cast

Joseph McCarthy

Peter Boyle

Paul Cunningham

John Forsythe

Joseph Welch

Burgess Meredith

Margaret Chase Smith

Patricia Neal

Mrs. DeCamp

Jean Stapleton

Sylvester

Ned Beatty

Scott Lucas

Philip Abbott

Speaker

Wallace Rooney

Logan

Heather Menzies

Middleton

Wesley Addy

Jean Kerr

Karen Carlson

Wisconsin Farmer

John Carradine

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