Red Hollywood Documentary List
List of films in Thom Andersen and Noel Burch's Red Hollywood 1996 documentary
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- DirectorJohn BerryStarsJoan FontaineMark StevensRosemary DeCampIncidents of a marriage are recalled in flashback.
- DirectorLloyd BaconMichael CurtizStarsBette DavisHumphrey BogartLola LaneA crusading district attorney persuades a clip joint hostess to testify against her mobster boss after her innocent sister is accidentally murdered during one of his unsavory parties.
- DirectorJohn FarrowStarsAnne ShirleyJames EllisonBarbara ReadAnne Shirley plays Alice Fisher-the daughter of a small grocer who at the last minute gets to go to little Talbot College. She learns that joining a sorority is an essential thing at the school. Unfortunately her late admission means that none of the sororities know about Alice and initially she is not even rushed. Fortunately her roommates have their own sorority problems and she soon falls in love with the BMOC.
- DirectorGarson KaninStarsGinger RogersGeorge MurphyAlan MarshalWorking girl Janie is proposed to by a conservative car salesman, a bohemian auto mechanic, and a millionaire playboy and must make a choice.
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsLana TurnerJohn SheltonGene LockhartTwo young office workers working at the same large firm secretly marry and defy their employer's policy against coworker fraternization. When the marriage is discovered, Margy (Turner) is fired. This causes the newlyweds to face serious financial struggles and Bill (Shelton) pursues desperate, perhaps even illegal, measures to make ends meet when the couple learn they are expecting their first baby!
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsGinger RogersRobert RyanRuth HusseyJo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsLynne RobertsWarren DouglasGerald MohrA wife, under her maiden name, runs her husband's ad agency while he is away serving the forces. After his return, he wants her to be a housewife, but she wants to sign up a big account. A bet is made and whomever wins gets their way.
- DirectorStuart HeislerStarsSusan HaywardLee BowmanMarsha HuntA successful nightclub singer weds a struggling songwriter, but when his fame eclipses hers, she delves into alcoholism.
- DirectorElmer CliftonIda LupinoStarsSally ForrestKeefe BrasselleLeo PennAfter a beautiful but unsophisticated girl is seduced by a worldly piano player and gives up her out-of-wedlock baby, her guilt compels her to kidnap another child.
- DirectorAndré De TothStarsMarsha HuntAlexander KnoxHenry TraversThe career of a German officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsFrank SinatraFreddie ChapmanVincent GraeffFrank Sinatra teaches a group of young boys a lesson in religious tolerance.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsJohn GarfieldEleanor ParkerDane ClarkMarine hero Al Schmid is blinded in battle and returns home to be rehabilitated. He readjusts to his civilian life with the help of his soon to be wife.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsDouglas DickSteve BrodieJeff CoreyDuring WW2, a reconnaissance platoon is sent to map out a Japanese-held island but racial tensions arise between the white soldiers and the only black member of the group.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsDavid BrianClaude Jarman Jr.Juano HernandezIn 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
- DirectorAbraham PolonskyStarsJohn GarfieldThomas GomezBeatrice PearsonAn unethical lawyer who wants to help his older brother becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket.
- DirectorIrving PichelStarsMickey RooneyJeanne CagneyBarbara BatesAfter taking 20 dollars from his employer to go on a date with plans to repay it the next day, an auto mechanic falls into increasingly disastrous circumstances for more and more money which rapidly spirals out of his control.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsFrank LovejoyKathleen RyanRichard CarlsonA man who is down on his luck falls in with a criminal.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsSterling HaydenLouis CalhernJean HagenA major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsDana AndrewsGene TierneyJune HavocThe story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsRobert RyanLaraine DayJohn AgarSuccessful, newly married Brad Collins once belonged to the Communist Party of the USA, and now the Party will stop at nothing to use him.
- DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. CobbAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
- DirectorR.G. SpringsteenStarsRobert RockwellHanna Axmann-RezzoriBetty Lou GersonAn ex-GI becomes involved with the American Communist party, and falls in love with his instructor. The pair quickly realise their mistake, when they see how party leaders handle a member who questioned the party's principles. When they try to leave, they're marked for assassination and hunted by the party killers.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsGeorge MurphyFinlay CurrieVirginia GilmoreA G-man searches for a communist sleeper-cell in Boston.
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsGlenn FordDorothy McGuireArthur KennedyCourtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsJohn GarfieldShelley WintersWallace FordNick and his partner Al stage a payroll holdup. Al is shot, and Nick kills a policeman. Nick hides out at a public pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs. They go back to her apartment, and he forces her family to hide him from the police manhunt.