Red Nightmare Pt. 1 of 3

Zoom in on intersection w/ barbed wire barrier, new American cars behind USSR soldiers & Russian man talking: “Speak English Comrade, remember its about the only freedom you do not have in this town, this American town. Americans, they have too many freedoms...one day we will be your mission to destroy those bourgoise Capitalist freedoms.” Jack Webb to camera: “Frightening isn’t it, from all appearances this community could be in Iowa, California or Tennessee...” 18:57:20 High angle of southern California small town ca 1950 w/ traffic. 18:57:25 Town thru barbed wire; classroom w/ instructor at blackboard & explosives & listening devices drawn. VO saying “...this nameless American city, deep in the vastness of the Soviet Union, it stands as a symbol of Russian treachery, of long range Communist conspiracy. ...it is a fraud, it isn’t free. Now let’s take a look at a genuine American town & a genuine American...” 18:58:47 Title: Red Nightmare Pt. 1 fo 3 W/ Jack Kell, Jeanne Cooper, Peter Brown, Patricia Woodell, Andrew Duggan, Peter Breck, Robert Conrad, Mike Road. Prod. at Warner Bros. Studios under personal supervision of Jack L. Warner. 18:59:41 Father, Jerry Donavan, into house, kids run & to him w/ boy in headdress. Mother interrupts for dinner. Kiss; into kitchen, refrigerator & pours milk; sniffs cooking pot. “Can’t you think about anything but bowling & television?” Husband & wife talk, she tries to get him to go to meetings. 19:03:01 Dinner table w/ daughter Linda, boy friend Bill, & two young kids. Donavan bores daughter’s boyfriend w/ football talk; young kids tease older sister, then to bed. Linda announces they want to get married. Father congratulates them; father: “I’m not against the marriage; I think it would be a fine idea, in four or five years.” Bill walks out. Donavan goes up to bed. 19:05:29 Webb outside turns & talks to camera: “Picture of an American, retiring for the night; going to bed in comfort...in America there’s always tomorrow... Let’s give Jerry a nightmare, a real red nightmare. Remember that Russian town we saw earlier...Let’s lift that town out of the Soviet Union; let’s super-impose it on Jerry’s home town...let’s see how many freedoms Jerry might lose...” 19:06:46 USSR gun post outside church, patrols. Jerry in diner agitated, tries to make phone call asked for his permit number & operator refuses to place the call w/o a permit from the Commisar. Sirens & Russian VIPs in jeep w/ siren. “...come on Comrade.” Everyone runs to sidewalk Russian speaks telling them “...it will be your responsibility comrades to purge the minds of the reactionary Americans so they will welcome the enlightened Soviet system...” Conavan walks thru crowd asking for explanation. 19:09:11 Walks into home, his family at dinner table acts like zombies. “Tomorrow night you’ve been selected to address the Parents-Teachers’ Committee.” What? “What would I talk about...” Continued... Xenophobia; Anti-Communist; 1960s; 1962; Fiction; Hollywood Propaganda; Red Scare; Cold War; NOTE: Any 15 minutes of film at per reel rate. 55 minute, 6R, version Freedom & You on LN 501-271 & 220769.