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Big Jim McLain
Category Drama
All Genres: Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Year: 1952
Country: USA
Runtime: 90 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Edward Ludwig
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
  • He's a Go-Get-'Em Guy for the U.S.A. on a Treason Trail that leads Half-a-World Away!
  • THE BIG MAN IN HIS BIG ADVENTURE!
  • FILMED in HAWAII and FILLED with EXCITEMENT!
  • Writing by: Richard English - (short story)
    James Edward Grant - (screenplay)
    Stephen Vincent Benet - quotes from "The Devil and Dan'l Webster"
    James Atlee Phillips - uncredited
    Eric Taylor - written by (uncredited)
    William Wheeler - story (uncredited)
    Produced by: Robert Fellows - producer
    John Wayne - producer (uncredited)
    Cast: John Wayne - Jim McLain
    Nancy Olson - Nancy Vallon
    James Arness - Mal Baxter
    Alan Napier - Sturak
    Veda Ann Borg - Madge
    Hans Conried - Robert Henried
    Hal Baylor - Poke
    Gayne Whitman - Dr. Gelster
    Gordon Jones - Olaf
    Robert Keys - Edwin White
    John Hubbard - Lt. Cmdr. Clint Grey
    Music: Paul Dunlap Arthur Lange Emil Newman Hugo Friedhofer Charles E. King Robert Wiley Miller
    Official Website: Visit Website
     
    Plot Outline:
    U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break...
     
    Plot:
    U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers in Hawaii (ignoring somewhat, as do their superiors in the Congress, that membership in the Communist Party was, at the time, legal in the U.S.)



    1 of the 7 conservative Hollywood movies, 30 July 1999
    Author: hero-4 from USA

    Y'know the old joke, told after Reagan was elected, that "One of every three Hollywood conservatives gets elected President"? (The joke being, of course, that there was only 3 conservatives in Hollywood)...well...

    Not Wayne's greatest, or even a great, movie. But still, in these days if Political Correctness being hammered down our respective throats, it's nostalgia to know it used to be vice versa.

    Darn, I miss the 1950s.


    Movie Quotes: Charles, the Prince Regent: [of the theatre] So many doors. Like an audience with the Japanese emperor!
    Crazy Credits:: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Any similarities to any persons living or dead is purely coincidental, especially any zombies.
    Trivia: There are 6 entries in the trivia list - like these:
    • Edwin Layton has a cameo that was arranged by the studio as a favor for getting permission for John Ford to film the actual Midway battle. Layton was the Pacific Fleet's Fleet Intelligence Officer at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
    • In the German version, Big Jim McLain (John Wayne) fights against marihuana dealers, not communist spies.
    • The first film produced by Wayne-Fellows Productions (later renamed Batjac Productions), John Wayne's independent production company.
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