The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | 01:12:30 | 3,98 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Film-Noir, Crime
DVD5 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | 01:12:30 | 3,98 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: None
Genre: Film-Noir, Crime
Brad Collins, former stevedore, is rising fast in a shipping company when local communist agitators use his former Party affiliation to extort his help in stirring up trouble. When Brad resists, communist femme fatale Christine works through his brother-in-law Don. But Brad's new wife Nan sees that her husband and brother are under pressure; when she investigates on her own, party boss Vanning takes ruthless action.
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Also Known As: I Married a Communist (1949)
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
This is a beautiful black and white movie filmed by renowned cameraman Nicholas Musuraca. It tells the story of a man with secret (earlier membership of the American Communist Party) and the way he deals with it. The communists are depicted as a secret society consisting of arrogant, affluent intellectuals (and a few hired thugs), an organization without a head. Everybody seems to be scared, even the section leader - an interesting performance by Thomas Gomez who played a victim of capitalism in the purportedly pro communist movie Force of Evil by Abraham Polonsky. The main character is ordered to use his position in the shipping industry to ignite unrest and dissatisfaction among the workers - seemd pretty believeable to me as a course militant policital action might take. The behavior of the main character, Robert Ryan, is somewhat mysterious as he keeps his past affiliation a secret instead of trusting his faithful wife. All in all I found this an inspiring movie with good performances (William Talman is also great and scary as the contract killer) and a stunningly beautiful woman I did not know before: Janis Carter.Customer Review, amazon.com
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
There's propaganda aplenty in RKO's I Married a Communist, the first of producer Howard R. Hughes' many anti-Red broadsides. Robert Ryan plays shipping executive Brad Collins, whose youthful flirtations with certain left-wing causes have made him ripe for plucking by Commie cell leader Vanning (Thomas Gomez). Threatening to reveal Collins' "pinko" past, Vanning orders the executive to deliberately sabotage the shipping industry in the Frisco Bay area. Other characters essential to the plotline are Collins' wife Nan (Laraine Day), who knows nothing of her husband's politics, and his idealistic brother-in-law Don (John Agar) who spouts Marxist dogma at the drop of a hat. Apparently at a loss as to how to depict communist villainy, the screenwriters hark back on the gangster films of the 1930s, notably in the scene where a hapless stoolie (the inevitable Paul Guilfoyle) is taken for a ride. When the title I Married a Communist proved an audience turn-off during previews, the film was rechristened The Woman on Pier 13.Hal Erickson, Rovi
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
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