In 'I Married a Communist' aka 'The Woman on Pier 13', Roosevelt, Utah native Laraine Day plays the woman who inadvertintly marries a communist. More accurately a lapsed communist played by Robert Ryan. The communists come looking for him however, as having changed his name and become a person of some authority at the San Francisco docks, he could be useful to them. Blackmail ensues and most of the major characters end up dead. A mixture of film noir and propaganda, these basic themes are explored as well or better in other period films such as 'I was a Communist for the FBI' and 'Red Menace'. *1/2
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