Big Jim McLain
FILMED in HAWAII and FILLED with EXCITEMENT!
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8/30/1952Runtime
90 minsOverview
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
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A brisk Cold War thriller that uses the Hawaiian setting as backdrop for an ideological manhunt. The film pulses with the paranoia and moral certainty of McCarthyism-era paranoia, positioning communist suspicion as justified heroism.
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