They still are! Unfortunately, Hollywood and most of the Country, me included, took too long to realize and expose that Fascism and Communism are cooked from the same pot. m/r
Best Anti-Communist Movies | National Review Online
by RON CAPSHAW August 3, 2015
It is widely believed on the left that the anti-Communist films of the 1950s were hysterical and unprofitable. This characterization originated with blacklisted Hollywood Communists. Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo — both of the Hollywood Ten, the group of Communist screenwriters convicted and jailed for refusing to cooperate with the investigations of the House Un-American Activities Committee — wrote that these films advocated anti-humanistic, even fascist messages. This theme was expanded by Nation writer Nora Sayre, who argued that Cold War–era Hollywood depicted Communists as deviants, hypocrites, and murderers.
Even more recent reviewers, such as Gwendolyn Audrey Foster of Sense of Cinema, promote this line of thinking. Examining the admittedly awful My Son John (1952), Foster characterizes the film as representative of the anti-Communist genre as a whole:
Every character is a stereotype, every other line of dialogue is a patriotic speech, and the camerawork does the awkward heavy lifting of one-sided propaganda. Plots are often ridiculous and fantastic. Acting is often painful to watch. Every minute of these films is a lecture on the evils of Communism and subversion.But when Foster lists examples of the anti-Communist genre, she simply excludes films that challenge her thesis. There are many anti-Communist movies that stand the test of time.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/421933/best-anti-communist-movies-50s
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