by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Project X was one of a cycle of anti-Red films produced in the late 1940s. Keith Andes plays an ex-Communist who is strongarmed into cooperating with the Feds. Pretending to become a "comrade" again, Andes rejoins the local Communist cell. Moving about freely, he is able to track down a gang of spies who are smuggling atomic secrets. Filmed on location in New York, Project X has the surface "feel" of a documentary, though the dialogue is strictly from the funny papers. Keep an eye out for a very young Jack Lord.
characteristics
- Espionage
- Double-agent
- Intrigue
- Nuclear
- Secrets
- Defector
- Defection
- Atomic-bomb
- Atomic-weapons
- Communism
- Communist
- Agent [representative]
