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Release Date: 1949 Cast: Thomas Gomez, Robert Ryan, John Agar, Laraine Day
Categories: Movies, Propaganda, Film noir, Black-and-white, Spy I Married a Communist is a 1949 film drama produced by RKO Radio Pictures. Due to audience resistance to the title, RKO re-released the film as The Woman on Pier 13 and Beautiful But Dangerous.
Brad Collins (Ryan), a San Francisco shipping executive (real name Frank Johnson) newly married after a brief courtship, had been involved with Communism in New York while a stevedore during the Depression. Shortly after returning home following their honeymoon, the couple meet Christine Norman (Janis Carter), an old flame of Collins, whose wife Nan Lowry Collins (Laraine Day) takes an instant... MORE
I Married a Communist is a 1949 film drama produced by RKO Radio Pictures. Due to audience resistance to the title, RKO re-released the film as The Woman on Pier 13 and Beautiful But Dangerous.
Brad Collins (Ryan), a San Francisco shipping executive (real name Frank Johnson) newly married after a brief courtship, had been involved with Communism in New York while a stevedore during the Depression. Shortly after returning home following their honeymoon, the couple meet Christine Norman (Janis Carter), an old flame of Collins, whose wife Nan Lowry Collins (Laraine Day) takes an instant dislike to.
Collins becomes the target of a Communist cell and its leader, Vanning (Thomas Gomez), who orders the murder of an alleged FBI informer drowned after a brief interrogation. After threatening to reveal Collins' responsibility for a murder as well as his communist past, Vanning orders the executive to sabotage the shipping industry in the San Francisco Bay by resisting union demands in a labor dispute. He claims it is impossible to leave the Communist Party. Meanwhile Norman, bitter over Collins's earlier rejection, is ordered to become closer to his brother-in-law Don Lowry (Agar) by LESS
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