A man who has taken his freedom for granted wakes up one morning to find out that the Communists have taken over America.A man who has taken his freedom for granted wakes up one morning to find out that the Communists have taken over America.A man who has taken his freedom for granted wakes up one morning to find out that the Communists have taken over America.
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Pat Woodell
- Linda Donavan
- (as Patricia Woodell)
Fred Aldrich
- Judge
- (uncredited)
E.J. André
- Malenko
- (uncredited)
Philip Carey
- Major Barnett
- (uncredited)
Ashley Cowan
- Counter Man
- (uncredited)
Paul Cristo
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Ronnie Dapo
- Jimmy Donavan
- (uncredited)
Chad Everett
- A Customer
- (uncredited)
Carol Nicholson
- Sally Donavan
- (uncredited)
Louis Quinn
- Machinist
- (uncredited)
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Jack Kelly's Vivid Red Dream
I suppose it's to be expected that this film laid on the anti-Communism a bit thick. Red Nightmare was a film for our Armed Services that Warner Brothers produced on their lot which utilized a whole lot of familiar faces from their television shows. Jack Webb in his patented staccato style narrated the film where Jack Kelly plays Mr. Average American who takes his American way of life quite for granted.
The funny thing is that I have no real problem with films encouraging greater citizen participation. Where folks might differ is the result of said participation. Nor do I have a problem with anti-Communism either as long as it doesn't involve persecution of people whose opinions are to the left of the then president of the United States when this film was made.
But this film ratcheted up the paranoia scale to unbelievable heights. We see Kelly in his daily life with wife Jeanne Cooper, daughter Pat Woodell and two other younger kids and Woodell's boyfriend Peter Brown. Job, family life are just stuff Kelly takes for granted.
But at night Kelly has an It's A Wonderful Life type dream as he sees his same life after a People's government has taken over the USA. And there's no angel named Clarence to get him out.
As there are a few survivors left from the cast I wonder how many of them feel about this film seen today.
The funny thing is that I have no real problem with films encouraging greater citizen participation. Where folks might differ is the result of said participation. Nor do I have a problem with anti-Communism either as long as it doesn't involve persecution of people whose opinions are to the left of the then president of the United States when this film was made.
But this film ratcheted up the paranoia scale to unbelievable heights. We see Kelly in his daily life with wife Jeanne Cooper, daughter Pat Woodell and two other younger kids and Woodell's boyfriend Peter Brown. Job, family life are just stuff Kelly takes for granted.
But at night Kelly has an It's A Wonderful Life type dream as he sees his same life after a People's government has taken over the USA. And there's no angel named Clarence to get him out.
As there are a few survivors left from the cast I wonder how many of them feel about this film seen today.
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- Apr 20, 2012
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- Runtime29 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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