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I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)


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Title: I Was a Communist for the FBI [IMDb]


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Release date: May 05, 1951
Studio: Warner Brothers
Runtime: 83 minutes
IMDB genres: crime, drama, film-noir, mystery, thriller
BYU holdings: https://search.lib.byu.edu/byu/record/lee.6787115

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In Pittsburgh, PA, an F.B.I. agent works to undermine the Communist party, but his brothers and his teenage boy thinks he's a real Red.

Plot keywords (from IMDb): adolescent, adolescent boy, alcoholic drink, applause, attempted murder, automobile, bad reputation, bar, baseball bat, being followed, betrayal, birthday, birthday present, black man, boy, brother brother relationship, brother vs brother, bullet wound, car, caught in the rain, cia, cigarette smoking, claim in title, clandestine, clapping, cointelpro, communist, communist infiltrator, communist spy, counter spy, cover up, covert operation, death of mother, doctor, donut, doughnut, duplicity, eavesdropping, factory, false accusation, family love, family quarrel, father, father son hug, father son relationship, fbi agent, federal bureau of investigation, file cabinet, following someone, funeral, gift, gun, gunfire, head bandage, hearing, hitman, hugging one's son, inappropriate use of the n word, incriminating document, infiltration, infiltrator, killing, laguardia airport, lead pipe, letter, lighting a cigarette, listening device, little boy, lost letter, map, map of united states, match, meeting, misunderstanding, mother son relationship, murder, narrated by character, newspaper, paternal love, patriotism, pennsylvania, phone booth, photo album, picket line , picket sign, picketing, pipe smoking, pittsburgh pennsylvania, police arrest, priest, punched in the face, punched in the stomach, rabble rouser, rain, record store, recording device, reel to reel tape recorder, reference to abraham lincoln, reference to jan masaryk, reference to josef stalin, reference to leon trotsky, reference to walter germanovich krivitsky, riot, robe, romantic subplot, run over by a train, schoolteacher, secret letter, shot in the head, shot to death, shot with a gun, slovenian, split lip, spy, stabbed to death, steel mill, stock footage, stolen letter, strike, striking a match, tape recorder, teacher, teenage boy, teenager, telephone, telephone booth, telephone call, teletype, toasting with a drink, train, train travel, tunnel, undercover agent, undercover cop, undercover fbi agent, union meeting, voice over narration, work place injury, communist party, lockheed constellation

Cast and Crew

ActorRole
Frank LovejoyMatt Cvetic
Dorothy HartEve Merrick
Philip CareyMason
James MillicanJim Blandon
Richard WebbKen Crowley
Konstantin ShayneGerhardt Eisler
Paul PicerniJoe Cvetic
Roy RobertsFather Novac
Edward NorrisHarmon
Ron HagerthyDick Cvetic
Hugh SandersClyde Garson
Hope KramerRuth Cvetic

Gordon Douglas: director

Max Steiner: composer

Murray Cutter: orchestrator


Film Statistics

Stats
Film duration: 1:22:48
Music duration: 09:24:28
Pages in score: 52
Total themes: 15
Themes with variants: 7
Total variants: 19
Total gestures: 9
Total underscoring sections: 6
Total underscoring duration: 19:01:27
Total instances: 54

Themes

Name Uses Variants
Undercover Agent 15 9
Family 6 3
Communist 3 2
FBI 3 2
Agitato Molto Misterioso 2 0
Riot 2 0
Signature 2 1
Agents Fight 1 0
Battle Hymn of the Republic 1 1
Strike 1 0

Other films borrowed from:

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

Each Dawn I Die (1939)

Combinations

Name Uses
Undercover Agent + Family 1

Source Music

Name Uses
(I'm Gonna Wait) A Little Bit Longer (For That Never-on-Time Baby of Mine) 1
Don'cha Go 'Way Mad 1
I'm in a Jam with Baby 1
Ice Cold Katy 1

Gestures

Name
Commie is shot
Down the stairs
Jumps off stairs
Running
Running and hiding
Searching
Sneaking
Throws lamp
Turns on lights

Underscoring

Name
Dramatic
Tense