Big Jim McLain (1952)

Directors

Edward Ludwig

Cast

John Wayne, James Arness, Nancy Olson, Alan Napier, Vernon 'Red' McQueen, Gayne Whitman, Veda Ann Borg, Robert Keys, Sarah Padden

The story

HUAC investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter are sent to Hawaii to track Communist Party activities and gather evidence toward convictions. Their trail leads to insurance fraudsters, saboteurs and infiltrators of labor unions on the Honolulu docks, who interfere with the loading and unloading of ships. After receiving information from a local newspaper reporter, the agents search for Willie Nomaka, a former party treasurer.

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