"He gave his life rather than bend to the yoke of tyranny!" Prolific B-movie director R.G. Springsteen took a break from horse operas for this 1949 anti-Communist propaganda film issued at the dawn of McCarthyism. A disillusioned American soldier (Robert Rockwell) is lured into joining the U.S. Communist Party only to learn that abandoning his new comrades is not an option. German-born Hanna Axmann-Rezzori is love interest Nina, while Chattanooga's Betty Lou Gerson, who the following year would narrate Walt Disney's Cinderella, is "Yvonne, a power-hungry, psychopathic, love-starved woman of destruction." Also with Barbra Fuller (The Roommates) and Leo Cleary from State Penitentiary as fearless Father Leary.
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