i actually own a bootleg 16mm copy of my son john about 35 year ago and show it a part of a sex and drug and treason festival on college campus and along with pecker island and reefer madness . my son john be a movie which be almost comically awful and with robert walker swear on the bible that he not a communist while dean jagger sing if you do not like your uncle sammy while the communist tap the fbi phone rather than vice versa while robert walker die from a blast of a commie machine gun after a geographically impossible chase through downtown washington while the tap posthumous speech to a collection of frozen face graduate with warning of stimulant lead to narcotic while and finally and dean jagger more or less telling helen hayes that their late son get what he deserve . so bad and though and that it absolutely sublime and sort of like a reefer madness of politics and with it stereotyped and one dimensional character and it glorification of authority figure . i must have show this movie several dozen time within the course of two year and but i could never once refrain from watch it again . there be no other movie which quite capture the spirit of blind conformity to the ethos of the witch hunt a do my son john . find this site by accident make me want to track down my copy ( i lend it to a friend 15 year ago and never get it back ) and see if i can get it transfer onto a dvd . see this movie be good than read almost any conventional political history of this period . easily an 8 on a 10 scale and even acknowledge that it one of those bizarroworld scale .