hotair.com By Mark Judge
As I have been writing in a series for Hot Air, I am planning an Anti-Communist Film Festival in 2026. We will be featuring classics like The Lives of Others, Red Dawn, and Back to School.
I will also feature some of the great anti-communist films of the 1950s: My Son John, I Was a Communist for the FBI, The Thief, Night People, and I Married a Communist, among others.
I was first exposed to many of these films at the American Film Institute’s Silver Theater and Cultural Center in Maryland. In 2024, the AFI featured a series on the “Fabulous 50s,” American movies from the Eisenhower era. They screened classics like Ben-Hur. Carmen Jones, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Night of the Hunter, Singin’ in the Rain, and my favorite, Sweet Smell of Success.
The series also featured some old “Red Scare” movies. These were presented as campy and corny films that propagandized the public into red-baiting hysteria. What I wasn’t prepared for is how sane these films are, and how relevant they continue to be. In I Was a Communist for the FBI, an FBI agent infiltrates the communist party in Pittsburgh. He learns of a plan to create “a hellbrew of hate,” urban riots intended to “divide and conquer,” by pitting the races against each other and causing so much mayhem that the left can call in Stalin to establish order – and make huge profits off the court cases. It’s right out of the Norm Eisen “color revolution” playbook. Another scene reveals a character who is a high school teacher – “What better place to serve the party than in a high school?” Chilling, and even more true today. Night People is a great film about Soviet duplicity in postwar Berlin…
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