Directed by:
Gordon DouglasScreenplay:
Crane WilburComposer:
William LavaCast:
Frank Lovejoy, Dorothy Hart, Philip Carey, Hugh Sanders, Richard Webb, Konstantin Shayne, Anne Kimbell, Paul Picerni, Edward Norris, Jack Mower, Roy Roberts (more)VOD (1)
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The real Matt Cvetic was a borderline alcoholic with a nasty disposition (he once allegedly beat his sister-in-law so badly she required hospitalization). But Cvetic was also a fervent anti-communist, and so, for a brief period in the early 1950s, he was a folk hero. I WAS A COMMUNIST FOR THE F.B.I. is the semi-true story of how Cvetic (played by Frank Lovejoy) renounced his friends and family and embraced the Red cause--on behalf of the F.B.I., for whom he was a volunteer undercover agent. The film recounts how Cvetic used his job as a Pittsburgh steelworker to contact various American Communist cell leaders, and how he exposed their insidious plans to overthrow the American government. (official distributor synopsis)
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