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Walk a Crooked Mile is a 1948 American anti-communist, Cold War crime film, directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Dennis O'Keefe and Louis Hayward. Plot. Solid leads come to light about a Communist spy ring infiltrating the Lakeview Laboratory of Nuclear Physics, a southern California atomic research center.
Walk A Crooked Mile, directed by Gordon Douglas, premiered in San Francisco on September 16, 1948. In documentary style narrated by the stern bass voice of Reed Hadley , it twists and turns its way through a joint investigation of communist spy activity by the FBI and Scotland Yard.
Walk a Crooked Mile. During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Gordon Douglas
- 1948-09-02
With Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Carl Esmond. During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.
Overview. A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces.
Packed with plot and narrated by the authoritative voice of actor Reed Hadley, Gordon Douglas’ Walk a Crooked Mile is a swiftly paced procedural noir overlaying a not-so-subtle postwar message to Americans that communism is evil.
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Jul 28, 2014 · Walk a Crooked Mile is an early example of Red menace noir: Cold War crime films that urgently uncovered a vast Soviet conspiracy within our sacred American institutions; in this case, modern art plays a particularly incriminating role in the smuggling of atomic formulas.
