I Was a Communist for the FBI
I had to sell out my own girl -- so would you!
Genres
Overview
A fact-based story about a man who posed as an American Communist for years as part of a secret plan to infiltrate their organization.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
83 min
Release Date
1951-05-02
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
13
Vote Average
5.3
Frank Lovejoy
Matt Cvetic
Dorothy Hart
Eve Merrick
Philip Carey
Mason
James Millican
Jim Blandon
Richard Webb
Ken Crowley
Konstantin Shayne
Gerhardt Eisler
Paul Picerni
Joe Cvetic
Roy Roberts
Father Novac
Edward Norris
Harmon
Ron Hagerthy
Dick Cvetic
Hugh Sanders
Clyde Garson
Hope Kramer
Ruth Cvetic
Lyle Latell
FBI Officer Cahill
5.3
The Human Jungle
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle.
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6.2
The Glass Web
A manipulative diva blackmails a married man and insults her secret lover, leading to her murder. As the husband tries to cover his tracks, the lover sabotages him and suggests turning the case into a TV show episode.
1953-11-11 | en
5.8
The Long Wait
Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his memory.
1954-05-26 | en
5.4
The Big Empty
A woman hires P.I. Lloyd Meadows to investigate her husband, a respectable social worker. What seemed to be a simple case of adultery turns into an ugly mess fast.
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6.2
The Man Who Cheated Himself
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
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5.9
Nocturne
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.
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6.3
Scene of the Crime
A cop investigates the shooting of another policeman... that may have been involved in crooked activities.
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6.2
The Thief
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
1952-10-15 | en
6.2
The Clouded Yellow
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
1950-11-21 | en
0.0
The Gun Equation
A man discovers his wife is having an affair, which leads him down a morally uncertain path.
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6.2
Witness to Murder
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
1954-04-15 | en
5.4
Illegal Entry
Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
1949-06-01 | en
6.0
5 Against the House
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
1955-06-10 | en
6.3
City of Fear
An escaped convict gets a hold of some radioactive material after his escape. Authorities desperately try to find the man that unknowingly is threating the lives of everyone in the city.
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7.1
The Breaking Point
A fisherman with money problems hires out his boat to transport criminals.
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5.9
The Human Factor
When a leak of information in the African section of British Intelligence is discovered, a security man is brought in to investigate.
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5.7
To the Ends of the Earth
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
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7.0
Phantom Lady
A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.
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6.4
The Locket
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
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5.4
Appointment with a Shadow
George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a bystander at the arrest of a well-known criminal.
1957-09-01 | en