Adapted from the autobiographical writings of Matt Cvetic, a Pittsburgh man of Slovenian decent who spent nine years in the 1940's as an FBI plant in the American Communist Party. This cost Cvetic dearly in his personal life, as the film is apt to point out, though fictionalizes in the form of a love interest played by Dorothy Hart. I thought the movie started out kind of dull and plodding, but it steadily improved. Overtly patriotic and propagandistic, that's part of why it works, I'd have really loved this in my comically anti-communist phase in High School. Today though I must just call it Fair.
See also: The FBI Story (1959)
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