Big Jim McLain Page #9

Synopsis: U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers in Hawaii (ignoring somewhat, as do their superiors in the Congress, that membership in the Communist Party was, at the time, legal in the U.S.)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Director(s): Edward Ludwig
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
 
IMDB:
5.4
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Year:
1952
90 min
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a member of the Communist Party?

I stand under the privileges granted me

by the Constitution of the United States

and refuse to answer.

I stand especially on the right granted me

under that section of the Constitution

known as the Fifth Amendment.

Well, I got my men.

You don't seem to be doing so well.

I wonder how Mal would have felt about

this Fifth Amendment?

He died for it.

There are a lot of wonderful things

written into our Constitution

that were meant for

honest, decent citizens.

I resent the fact

that it can be used and abused

by the very people that want to destroy it.

So, theY walked out free again.

We built a case

and proved to anY intelligent person

that these people are Communists,

enemY agents,

and theY walk out free.

Sometimes, I wonder

whY I staY on this job.

You been waiting long?

You're not late. I'm early.

I wanted to be sure to be here

when you arrived.

I knew how badly you would feel

and I didn't want you to be alone.

I wanted so much to be able to help,

even in a little way.

You just keep looking at me like that

for the next hundred years

and you'll help in a real big way.

Company, halt!

Company, forward march!

- Showman, P.W.

- Yo.

- Gross, E.K.

- Yo.

- Donahue, J.J.

- Here.

- Lastworth, E.T.

- Here.

- Cohen, L.K.

- Yo.

- Grant, J.E.

- Yo.

- Brie, J.

- Here.

- Fellowes, R.

- Here.

- St. John, M.

- Yo.

Neighbor, how stands the Union now?

There stands the Union, Mr. Webster.

There stands our Union, sir.

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Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon". more…

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