My Son John(1952)
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My Son John(1952) |
 "Turner Movie Classics on January 27th showed its viewers My Son John, a 1952 film which Robert Osborne advised his audience had been deliberately put out of circulation since soon after it was released. In his introduction to the film, Osborne acknowledges that the film’s stars and producers were first rate. The cast included Helen Hayes, Van Heflin, and Robert Walker. Osborne also makes it clear that the film is an embarrassment to the film industry, full of childish anti-Communism and the foolish paranoia of America in the 1950s. Vote for a DVD to be produced! My Son John, in fact, is a chilling prediction of the growth of those evils which have dragged America to its present sickness. The main theme of the film was the dangers of communism. In the last twenty years we have learned that Soviet penetration of America in the 1940s was greater than most anti-Communists had believed." (Bruce Walker - AmericanDaily)  Way back in the 1950's, Senator Joseph
McCarthy with great fanfare embarked upon a quest for Communists embedded in the US government and indirectly those embedded in the media and education. (The media
then including Magazines, Movies, Newspapers, Radio and TV on a small scale).
Being a member of the Communist Party was not and is not illegal, but trying to undermine or overthrow the US government is. Senator McCarthy was rather adamant and explosive in his approach to the issue. In some cases, his efforts had adverse effects on people not related to the Communist threat. Presented as a public service by
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