I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951) on Netflix
NR19511h 23mCrimeDramaFilm-Noir
Matt Cvetic works in a Pittsburgh steel mill and has spent nine years posing as a Communist while reporting to the FBI. His family, kept in the dark, despises him.
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Matt Cvetic works in a Pittsburgh steel mill. For nine years he has posed as a Communist in that city, reporting on the party to the FBI. In the cell he is known as one of the members. His family has no idea, so they see a man who has given himself to the cause and despise him for it.
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- I Was a Communist for the FBI drew on the real undercover work of Matt Cvetic, who spent nine years inside a Communist Party cell reporting to the FBI, and Frank Lovejoy plays him. Cvetic wrote the stories the film is based on for The Saturday Evening Post.
