Show The Red Menace A Passionate Indictment Of Communism In US U.S. Republic Studios Studios Studios' delivers one of the most Jolting screen stories this reviewer has ever been privileged to witness In InThe InThe The Red Menace a burning passion passion- passionate ate Indictment of or Communist Infiltration infiltration infiltration tion Into America The startling film opens Tuesday at the Egyptian Theatre It Is the Job of a critic to analyze a pictures picture's qualities but before we proceed we must pay tribute to the courage of or Republic for tackling such a highly controversial subject as The Red Menace and for doing such an excel excel- excellent excellent excellent lent and Intelligent Job of bringing It to the screen j Game For Commies The Republic picture Is ie admirable In that It never becomes bombastic It tells the tho simple gripping story of Bill Jones American G. ex-G. I. I temporarily discouraged discouraged discouraged aged because of or a bad deal handed him I Iby by an unscrupulous home builder At 1 this Juncture he Is fair fall game for a Communist organizer who makes him believe that the American government Is Ic to blame for all his woes From this point you follow rollow Bill Bm Jones through the entire network of the American Communist Party You see the ups higher the newspaper editors the women who play such an Important part partIn In luring men Into the party the tough hoodlums whose Job It Is to keep meD n members bers In line above all you see the hopelessness of 0 those In the party who have learned the truth too late Filmed In Secrecy Filmed In complete secrecy because of the tho highly explosive nature of its story Tho hed Ked Menace Is peopled by an un un- unusual unusual un- un unusual usual cast of players In order to maintain main main- maintain maintain tain the secrecy necessary nece ary to work freely free free- freelY ly Republic determined that It would cast ast the picture from the ranks of un un- unknown unI unknown known actors And so It turned to radio I and community theatres for Its players The results are amazing The cast per per- performs perI performs I forms with a freshness and sincerity I seldom achieved by more seasoned per per- perI I formers Certainly many of them are destined for great things things' on the screen following their work In this picture Outstanding Portrayals Outstanding arc are Robert Rockwell as asI the tho war veteran Hanne Axman as a I Communist who comes to America and learns earns for the first time what freedom I can an mean Betty Lou Gerson famed ra radio ra- ra raI I dio ilo actress as an Intense and fanatical Communist Barbra Fuller who plays Claudia on the popular radio show One Mans Man's Family as a man-bait man girl for the party and Shepard Menken asa as asa asa a disillusioned poet R. R G. G Is responsible for an excellent director director- directorial ial Job while Herbert J. J Yates Republic Studios' Studios president receives the Executive I Ii i Producer credit I |