The Red Menace

Aug 1, 1949

1h 21m

★ 4.1

So shocking it was filmed behind locked studio doors!

Overview

A couple try to leave the Communist party after a murder by the group they were once loyal to.

Genres

Crime

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

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Cast

Bill Jones

Robert Rockwell

Nina Petrovka (as Hanne Axman)

Hanna Axmann-Rezzori

Greta Bloch, alias Yvonne Kraus

Betty Lou Gerson

Henry Solomon

Shepard Menken

Earl Partridge

Lester Luther

Jack Tyler (as William J. Lally)

William Lally

Inspector O'Toole

Lloyd G. Davies

Reachi

Norman Budd

Father O'Leary

Leo Cleary

Mrs. O'Flaherty

Kay Riehl

Immigration Insp. Riggs

William Martell

Martin Vejac

James Harrington

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