Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Love and defection
- 2 The enemy within
- 3 Projecting a prophet for profit
- 4 Of gods and moguls
- 5 Negotiable dissent
- 6 Turning a negative into a positive
- 7 A cowboy in combats
- 8 Secrets and lies
- 9 The empire strikes back
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Film Index
- General Index
2 - The enemy within
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Love and defection
- 2 The enemy within
- 3 Projecting a prophet for profit
- 4 Of gods and moguls
- 5 Negotiable dissent
- 6 Turning a negative into a positive
- 7 A cowboy in combats
- 8 Secrets and lies
- 9 The empire strikes back
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Film Index
- General Index
Summary
The Communists have developed one of the greatest propaganda machines the world has ever known. They have been able to penetrate and infiltrate many respectable and reputable public opinion mediums … Communist activity in Hollywood is effective and is furthered by Communists and sympathizers using the prestige of prominent persons to serve, often unwittingly, the Communist cause … What can we do? And what should be our course of action? The best antidote to Communism is vigorous, intelligent, old-fashioned Americanism with eternal vigilance.
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, testifying before HUAC, 26 March 1947His family loved him dearly but knew there was something wrong with John (played by Robert Walker). Perhaps it was because he had ‘more degrees than a thermometer’, and had grown apart intellectually from his simple, well-meaning parents. Maybe it was because he spent too long away from their small home town, in Washington, DC, where he was mysteriously working for the government.
Dan and Lucille Jefferson (Dean Jagger and Helen Hayes) had recently grown to tolerate their son's effete and snobbish manner. But his failure to return home in time to see his clean-cut younger brothers depart for combat in Korea was unforgivable. For John then to ridicule his father's patriotism and mock his mother's devotion to Christianity was the last straw. Little wonder Mr Jefferson, a member of the American Legion, tries to knock some sense into his snide son by belting him with a Bible.
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- Hollywood's Cold War , pp. 42 - 71Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2007